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...captivated Washington correspondents with his candor, his willingness to take on all questions, his 24-hour-a-day readiness to answer reporters' telephone calls. Most members of Congress seem to feel the same way about him. Even when it is intent on boiling him 11 oil or chopping his authority out from under him, the Congress experiences a strange melting sensation around the icy fringes of its will power whenever Mil Di Salle paddles up to Capitol Hill to testify...
...Name Is Mike. But he soon snapped back. In 1947, Toledo elected him mayor. Under the city manager plan, it was really a ceremonial post, but Di Salle quickly converted it into a 14-hour-a-day career. He bounced around town like a loose basketball to attend meetings, sport events and dinners, perform good deeds and hear complaints. Borrowing from one of his political idols, the late Fiorello La Guardia, he would don a whitewing's uniform and sweep a street or peer owlishly from a Toledo newspaper in Indian headdress. When Michael of Rumania stopped at Toledo...
...present, President Truman had decided to invoke only part of his powers. The mobilization that he decreed would fall far short of total mobilization, with its millions in uniform and 24-hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected...
Francis is played by a real Army veteran who underwent a 16-hour-a-day movie course with studio Trainer Jimmy Phillips. Recruited for the film from a Calabasas, Calif, mule dealer, he was dyed a darker hue from head to hoof, wore greasepaint on his mouth, powder on his nose, a "rat" in his tail, half-inch false eyelashes and-until he balked-extra-sized false ears. Like many a new-found star, patient Francis is currently making personal appearances with the picture...
...plugged WNEW by lavish advertising, from full-page ads in the Times to broadsides on the backs of laundry slips. Tudie launched Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra; she discovered Martin Block, New York City's first disc jockey. But, mostly, her listeners get a 24-hour-a-day drumfire of musical recordings, commercials and news. As Tudie says, one nice thing about tuning in on WNEW is "you can leave the room and, when you come back, you've missed nothing...