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...whooped up in Chicago (see p. 11). Unlike many another listener, Wendell Willkie was not bored. Having predicted his own nomination on the sixth ballot in Philadelphia, Mr. Willkie predicted Franklin Roosevelt's renomination on the first ballot in Chicago. But until "we-want-Roosevelt" chants began to liven the broadcasts, Candidate Willkie was glum. When the news came, he happily puffed a cigaret: "Boy, I think my worries are over...
...team in the league a good game. There are lots of choice seats, yours for the sitting, around the Soldiers Field diamond; and the Harvard nine could use some real vocal support--even of the Brooklyn variety. Don't condemn the Harvard games as being dull; go down and liven them...
...Husband's Secretary" is just what you would expect it to be except that at one point someone though it would be a good idea to liven up the proceedings with a good roaring forest fire...
...Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send him to Washington. By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled up such a record of outlandish behavior both on & off the House floor that even Congressmen who like a little eccentricity to liven the legislative atmosphere had begun to regard him as the Capitol's No. 1 problem child...
Last week New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman announced that, in the course of his conference on Crime, the Criminal & Society at Albany next week, he would appeal by radio for the support of the State's schoolchildren. If he should wish to liven his speech by a few examples, the Governor could choose from the following items in last week's news...