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Careful political observers who have inspected Warren's 70 say that at least 30 are firmly for Eisenhower as a second choice, at least four are solidly for Taft, and 15 will follow Warren's suggestion. The rest lean one way or another. If Warren suggests a vote for Eisenhower, and all the delegates go as they are now leaning, the count will be 56 for Ike, 14 for Taft...
...College. Tugging at his mustache and rumpling his hair, he lectured in a gentle voice, pausing awkwardly now & then to glance at his crumpled fistful of notes, or to gaze distractedly out of the window. But however labored his delivery, his message took hold. Philosophy, he declared, could not lean on eternal verities, nor summon up answers, for there are no ultimate answers to be summoned. "The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution," said he, "it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda...
Aloof and austere at 82, Artist Yeats has lived alone in Dublin since his wife's death in 1947. An old man, and a Protestant in a Catholic land, he has few close friends now. Dublin knows him best as a lean, stooped figure in a navy blue jacket, cut sea-captain style, and black string tie, who is sometimes to be seen rambling through the city...
ARKANSAS-11. Convention gave Taft 7, Ike 1. Three uncommitted all lean...
...unequal struggle between writers and tax collectors, A. P. Herbert, author, wit and longtime M.P., wrote a letter to the editor of the London Times: ". . . We sell capital and it is treated as income. The work of three years is taxed in one. We have a sudden success, after lean years, and soar into the regions where we are allowed to keep only a few shillings in every pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon, we may no longer...