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Favorite & Rival. Lucas Cranach, an early 16th-Century German master, was a Göring favorite, and he had some beauties-about 50 in all. He had a lovely Venus by Cranach, a Madonna with Child and John the Baptist, and a haunting portrait of Prince Moritz of Saxony as...
Since 1912, bald, businesslike Dr. Lucas Petrou Kyrides (rhymes with Wheaties) has been grinding out inventions in a steady stream. His inventions, now totaling over 100, include a syphilis-curing drug (Mercurosal), the first U.S. process for making synthetic rubber from isoprene and butadiene, the first U.S. synthetic rubber tire...
The threat of the reddest of red-hot isolationists-Richard J. Lyons, the Chicago Tribune-backed candidate in Illinois -was soundly beaten off by New Dealing Scott Lucas. The only really hard-shell isolationists who won reelection, both more narrowly than expected, were Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley and...
Illinois. Senator Scott Lucas, a downstate New Dealer backed by Mayor Ed Kelly's machine, might squeeze through even if Illinois voted for Dewey. Opponent Richard Lyons, favorite of the Chicago Tribune and twice blessed by Tom Dewey, is splenetically anti-New Deal and isolationist.
Scene IX: Back to Touhy's. In the Illinois section, Ed Kelly suddenly snapped at Scott Lucas: "Christ Almighty, let's get in this thing. We're clean out." Out rushed the whole Illinois delegation for a caucus at John Touhy's. Wyoming switched to Truman...