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...take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...
...indication of what was going to happen came when York County Chairman Harold D. Carroll, who had declared himself neutral and had been claimed by Taft men, arrived. He tacked a handsome colored portrait of Ike on his hotel-room door and stuck an Ike pin in his lapel. As the conventions were about to begin, Maine's Senator Margaret Chase...
...political calisthenics, fried chicken and speechmaking. Outshining such professional entertainers as Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, who emceed the show, and ex-Pug Buddy Boer, who crooned: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey, who posed in an Uncle Sam hat, with an "I Like Ike" button on his lapel, a raddled drumstick in hand and a campaign gleam...
...Massachusetts Committee for Taft. On the center hors d'hoeuvres table, were pamphlets telling why "Bob Taft is the GOP's best bet for '52." The pamphlets, a poster of a grinning baby elephant on the wall, a filing cabinet, and Taft-for-President buttons on every lapel signaled the switch from cocktails to politics...
...reply: Truman has made up his mind on the Vatican issue, and the council had better go on over to Congress. Taking the cue, the pilgrims held a mass meeting in the lobby of the Washington Hotel and prayed for the success of their mission. Then, wearing large green lapel discs proclaiming "Keep church and state separate," they marched on Capitol Hill. Texas' Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a foe of diplomatic relations with the Vatican, greeted them. The pilgrims handed him petitions with 50,000 signatures supporting their protest...