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...MICHIGAN, Representative Charles E. Potter, a legless World War II veteran, is leading Senator Blair Moody...
...death of the late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams' opponent is Fred M. Alger Jr., public-minded heir of one of Detroit's pre-automobile families and a strong candidate...
Montgomery Ward's fall & winter catalogue went out to customers last week with not a picture of a live model in it, except on the cover and in the millinery section. Dresses, coats and sweaters were hung on headless, armless and legless dummies ; stockings were draped over a disembodied hand. Reason: Montgomery Ward's stern Chairman Sewell Avery does not want a customer's attention diverted by a pretty girl...
...Young and the Damned (Oscar Dancigers; Mayer-Kingsley) are a gang of savage slum children running wild on the outskirts of Mexico City, where they steal, beat up a blind beggar, attack a legless man and commit murder. Filmed in Mexico as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones), the picture was directed by Spam's onetime surrealist Moviemaker Luis Bunuel and photographed by Mexico's famed Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. The Young and the Damned is in the raw, realistic tradition of such classic juvenile-delinquency movies as the Russian Road to Life, the American Wild Boys of the Road...
...rights are more important than my legs," declared James Kutcher, legless veteran in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union in Leverett Junior Common Room last night. Kutcher was dismissed from his job as a clerk for the Veterans Administration by the VA Loyalty Board because of his membership in the Socialist Workers Party...