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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Philadelphia's bunting-bedecked downtown streets this week, "Welcome" signs blossomed in bar windows and store fronts. At Republican National Committee headquarters in the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, party-workers checked over lists of page-boys, sergeants-at-arms, ushers and doorkeepers for the great National Convention. Candidates' headquarters came to life. Crowded hotel lobbies buzzed with the chitchat and greetings of guests, politicians, camp followers and swarming newsmen...
Despite such run-ins, when it came time to pick a successor for able Governor Ed Martin, the party's bigwigs settled on Big Jim. After a long, weary afternoon's session in the Hotel Hershey, the bosses could still not decide between four other entries. Finally, in a moment of unguarded weariness, Joe Pew pointed to Duff: "That redheaded s.o.b. ought to be the candidate. I called him about it a few days ago and he told me to go to hell...
Puckered Bernarr Macfadden, 79, settled down at his Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, N.Y. for a delayed honeymoon with his blonde bride Jonnie, 42, who showed newsmen her current reading assignment: How to Attain and Practice the Perfect Sex Life. "I can't imagine anything more exciting than being married to Bernarr Macfadden," said...
Diego Rivera's new mural in a Mexico City hotel had stirred up a tequila tempest: the Archbishop refused to bless the hotel because the mural in the dining room contained the words "God does not exist" (TIME, June 14). Last week the ideological brew boiled over, and some of it spilled on the painting...
Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...