Word: idols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Security Council meeting. "The Voice" attended in peace with Sculptor Jo Davidson, departed unmolested. Nearest thing to an upsetting experience was some picture-taking later: Sinatra and his big bow tie (his wife makes them for him) didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little...
...third day, the elevator brought Mohandas K. Gandhi. He had come to New Delhi by special train, rode in a Packard over a driveway made especially for him to a colony of bhangis (sweepers), who belonged to the underprivileged but politically potent caste of Untouchables. When the living idol of some 200 million Indians emerged from his meeting with the British ministers, he smiled a Gandhi smile...
...grand Charlie think of all this? "Silent as the Sphinx," reported the weekly Le Clou, "De Gaulle amuses himself with the subtle game of enigmas." Rumor whirled among left-wingers of an impending rightist coup. "De Gaulle's intransigent friends," said Le Clou, "dream for their Idol a destiny either like a return from the island of Elba or one resulting from a big scuffle...
...Johnson, sunny-faced Hollywood hero, got the proof that he was a full-fledged popular idol: when he visited New Orleans, a couple of bobby-soxers went out of their way to tell him he was no good. He was, said they, a d. d. d.-dismal, dehydrated drip...
...backer turned out to be Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace, who had written him a letter of endorsement saying: "I wish you all success." Democrats and Republicans were astounded. But Manhattan's Communists, seeing a chance for "an important labor victory" (and incidentally a Congressional partner for their idol Vito Marcantonio), were not surprised at all. They had already marshaled their forces...