Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 650 more or less influential Wisconsin Democrats. Stevenson's followers worry more about Wisconsin than any other primary partly because they fear their candidate would have to put on a Kefauver-type campaign, featuring handshaking, baby-kissing and folksy platitudes. Yet Stevenson has impressive backing in Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha and Racine: at a recent Milwaukee County meeting of Democratic leaders, a straw vote went 19 to 3 for Stevenson over Kefauver. Wisconsin may be one of the hardest primaries for Stevenson-and it could be the one to assure his nomination...
...Madison Square Garden, the purple spotlights came on and in marched the Regimental Band in black bearskins, scarlet tunics and blue trousers. Then came the Massed Pipers of the ist and 2nd Battalions, swishing their royal Stuart tartan kilts and armed with dirks and skean dhu (daggers). The two groups formed at opposite ends of the arena and began the kind of show that Britons stage better than anybody else in the world...
...city like Boston, notorious for its well-publicized censorship and stuffy morality. One editor summed up his answer by saying that in Boston he can take a long and objective view of the manuscript before him. "Away from the insularity of New York," he said, "the proximity to Madison Avenue's advertising agencies, and the 'faddishness' of the Big City, I can examine more carefully the ideas of an author. I can shut out the irrelavant and concentrate on what I am reading."Typical of an editor who must be both critic and businessman is Paul Brooks '31, trade publisher...
...comparison of Painter Brunel's beauty and the Madison Avenue manner, see cuts...
...Three months before the opening of the indoor-track season, Lieut. Wes Santee of the U.S. Marine Corps displayed mid-season form at an Olympic Carnival in New York's Madison Square Garden. Miler Santee easily outdistanced six competitors and ran the mile in 4:05.2, less than two seconds off the Garden record...