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...Cleveland, the Pennsylvania's ancient, dingy Lakefront station has also been a sore point for years. In 1914 one irate user called it a "pig pen;" only four years ago the Cleveland Press vainly campaigned to get it replaced, offered suitable prizes to anyone who could remember the day it opened in 1866. Sample awards: "lithograph of President Lincoln, free ride in next stagecoach passing through Cleveland . . . views of pony express for your stereoscope...
Around 9 o'clock tonight, the smoggy serenity of Cleveland's lakefront will be split by one hell of a yell: Lou Boudreau will have returned to Municipal Stadium and some 60,000 teary voices will rise together in protest that he should have never left. The average Cleveland baseball fan is funny that way; a sentimentalist, he would still prefer the Indians in the second division under Boudreau than on top (as they currently are) under somebody else...
Booked on charges of "giving an indecent performance" for the umpteenth time since she took up fandangling, Sally Rand protested, "I'm sorry, I just don't tell my age." (Milwaukee Policewoman Geraldine Sampon, who had found Sally "nude as could be" in a lakefront carnival show, finally got her to admit...
...Deal. Probably the only man to dampen the buying zeal of Trader Hilton is red-faced, reticent ex-Bricklayer Stephen Healy. A contractor at heart, Healy was an uneasy owner of the $28,000,000 lakefront gargantua. But Hilton's obvious passion to own the place made Healy stifle his own eagerness to sell. First, he wanted $500,000 clear profit on the $5,281,000 he had paid the Army for the Stevens, and the $800,000 he had spent on furnishings. Then he coolly upped his profit demand to $650,000, then to a million, finally...
Bigger Job? The 50 members of Governor Warren's own California delegation, his hand-picked supporters, to the last believed that he might still change his mind. After the second day's session they gathered in Governor Warren's lakefront suite on the 14th floor of Chicago's Stevens Hotel. The Governor, sitting at the green-baize-covered table at the front of the room, read aloud his letter of refusal to the Oregon delegation. There was an awkward silence. Then up rose grey, dignified Byron C. Hanna, lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles...