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...amused by your statement on Bob Taft in "Who's Who in the GOP": "Bespectacled, with a toothy mouth and boxlike jaw, he looks more like a college professor than a politician" [TIME, April 19] . . . As a matter of fact, college professors don't all look alike and I know none who looks like Bob Taft...
Personal Traits. Bespectacled, with a toothy mouth and a boxlike jaw, he looks more like a college professor than a politician. Unlike his father, who was a hearty laugher, he has a quiet humor and a sudden wide grin. Careless of his dress, he likes what his family calls "all-purpose" pants-he sometimes wears the same pair to the Senate, to the golf links, and to dinner. In private, he is a genial and pleasant conversational ist; on the Senate floor he is all business-cold, aggressive, persistent...
...disorders spread through Bogotá and then to other Colombian cities certainly indicated skilled direction, if not considerable planning. And the result suited the party, right down to the ground. Said the New York Daily Worker: "Interruption of the Foreign Ministers' parley is a sock in the jaw to the Big Business men of the State Department...
...Princeton kicker's foot squarely in his stomach. Although he came back to play in the second half, he was in poor shape, and that night was taken to the Royal Army hospital for treatment. A few minutes after Eaton was carried off the field, Hunt Mauran had his jaw broken, but he played out the remainder of the first half. Only that evening did an x-ray show the break, and the Harvard squad found itself minus two of its best running backs...
...further disadvantage of losing two of its best players from injuries occurring in the first half of the Tiger contest. Joe Eaton, who had starred against Bermuda, was kicked in the stomach in the opening minutes of play, and Hunt Mauran had to leave the field with a broken jaw during the first half...