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Single Issue. Dalton, 56, a lanky, loose-jointed state senator from Carroll County in southwest Virginia's Republican-leaning mountain country, won the usually Democratic seat in 1944 by a write-in campaign, has held it since, despite mighty organization efforts to dislodge him. Nominated for governor a second...
The literature of every decade offers a classic confrontation which is both symbol and caricature of the prevailing conflict of ideas. In the books of the '20s the disenchanted and emancipated young confronted their hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at...
The long-jawed, loose-jointed giant sprawled inelegantly on the Dodger bench. Speaking with the authority of an eight-game winning streak and 33⅓ scoreless innings, Dodger Pitcher Don Newcombe reduced the game of baseball to its bare essentials. "I can say this," he announced with magnificent aplomb. "I...
While he was becoming France's best-selling composer and conductor, Legrand remained virtually unknown to the buying public, partially because he was not clearly identified with any single popular school. Maurice Chevalier changed that, when he hired Legrand to conduct the orchestra on one of his series of...
Knowing craftsmen in the dog-story game have practically made a convention of the tragic ending, and Author Gipson is not the man to trifle with convention. So Old Yeller has to go. But with his sure knowledge of Texas frontier life, a brace of engaging heroes and a loose...