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...office he kept a gadget pocket radio open on his desk. When the Convention sank into confusion after its spiritless opening, he talked long with Harry Hopkins in Chicago, used the direct wire from the White House to confer long with Senators Byrnes and Barkley. When Alabama's Lister Hill, with lamenting tremolos and quaverollos in his voice, placed the name of Franklin Roosevelt in nomination, no sign or word betrayed Franklin Roosevelt's emotion. But Steve Early, an accurate barometer of the President's political feelings, groaned...
Next day the platform crept out, as forthright against sin as all platforms, and after New York's Senator Robert A. Wagner had read the whole document through, the delegates knuckled down to their task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for Term III. Balding, melodramatic Senator Hill laid his ears back and bayed in a manner so floridly reminiscent of Civil War Days that editorials in Southern newspapers blushed for Southern shame for days afterward...
...many others. Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Julian Alvárez del Vayo are in Mexico, as are some 6,000 of the more Leftist Republican supporters. Madrid's Savior, General José Miaja, is also in Mexico. General Vicente Rojo is in Argentina. Corps Commander Enrique Lister, famed Communist fighter, is believed to be in France or Russia. Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") is in Russia...
...Professor Riley? Guesses began to fly: perhaps he was Durham University's eminent Chemist Harry Lister Riley (no; reporters found him vacationing in Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
...definitely helped cases of pathological sex inadequacy, by bringing the patient's sexual functioning up to par. But there is no evidence that it retards the natural sex decline and general debility of old age. Last week the experiments of Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Britain's Lister Institute proved that testosterone prolongs potency in neither man nor beast. Dr. Korenchevsky worked with rats-which, for medical research purposes, are almost miniature human beings...