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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christian Nationalist: for President, Gerald L. K. Smith, 50, rabble-rousing, race-baiting ex-preacher from Louisiana; for Vice President, Harry Romer, 50, a funeral director of St. Henry, Ohio. Smith and Romer were running mates in 1944 on the America First ticket. They advocate withdrawal of the U.S. from U.N., establishment of friendly relations with Franco Spain, deportation of all Negroes and Zionist Jews...
...said that spoke from a natural bias. Nobody could accuse Al (Li'l Abner) Capp of disloyalty to his profession. Was there a shred of truth in his assertion? To prove that there might be, 100 topflight cartoonists were exhibiting their best work in Manhattan last week...
Papa Redbird got away first, and for almost six furlongs set the pace, while Arcaro was content to lag behind. (Says Eddie: "Citation's a great competitive colt. He wants speed out in front of him.") On the far turn Citation overtook and easily passed Papa. Jockey R. L. Baird gave Papa a breather around the bend. Most of the fans, and Citation himself, seemed to figure that he had Papa licked. But in the stretch, Baird sent Papa up again. Said Baird later: "For a couple of seconds, I was an optimist. We got up within a half...
...Theodore L. Syvertson, of Pasadena, a 69-year-old retired building contractor, had hiccuped almost continuously, once every ten seconds, since November 1946. He lost ten pounds, spent nine months in hospitals, had consultations with 60 doctors which did him no good. Last week he tried bending over at the waist while drinking water from the far side of a glass. Halfway through the second glass, his hiccups stopped...
Died. Clarence Edward Groesbeck, 72, longtime chairman of the board of the vast Electric Bond & Share Co. public-utilities empire; in La Jolla, Calif. In the '305, with Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell L. Willkie, he led the fight against TVA and the New Deal's program of Government regulation of utilities...