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...Truman's rebuff was possibly the Democrats' gain-Hennings looked like a better campaigner than Allison against the Republicans' Senator Forrest Donnell, an earnest, hair-splitting legalist in the Senate (where he is known as "The Big Itch"), but a cracker-barrel, Bible-quoting spellbinder along Missouri's back roads...
...Money Itch. William Jaird Levitt never planned to be a builder; he just drifted into it. Born in Brooklyn in 1907, he grew up in an argumentative family, and in that atmosphere his self-confidence waxed mightily. His father, Abraham, was a lawyer who used to spend summer nights lecturing to Bill and his younger brother Alfred on everything from art to the Dodgers. Bill, the family extravert, liked the baseball lectures; Alfred, shy and retiring, preferred those...
...recent novels the clergyman with the troubled conscience appears almost as often as the young advertising man with an itch to compose literature. Anglican Chaplain Choyce in Leslie Greener's No Time to Look Back (see Recent & Readable) is such a man. So are some of the central figures in recent works of such Roman Catholic writers as J. F. Powers (Prince of Darkness) and Harry Sylvester (All Your Idols), who portray this kind of priest so movingly that their work is a rebuke to a popular bestseller theory, i.e., that the life of renunciation is jolly...
Missouri's plodding, painstaking Donnell, sometimes known as the "Big Itch," read some of the language of the bill: "It involves confidence on the part of investors . . . that they will not be deprived of their property without prompt, adequate and effective compensation...
...piddling tasks as telling 1) Northwestern Extract Co. to stop claiming that "Grape Sparkle" contains real grape juice, 2) a small greeting-card company to stop describing its cards as "plateless engraved," and 3) International Laboratories, Inc. to stop advertising that Moone's Emerald Oil will stop skin itch...