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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American mother, is worth more than all Central Europe"). The world had changed a lot since then, but not Pat McCarran. Even to this day, the only European he seems to admire is Spain's Dictator Franco. Though liberals get choleric at the mention of the man from Nevada, at his unsuccessful campaign to cut down admittance of D.P.'s, at his troublemaking immigration clauses in the antisubversive law, Pat goes his own way. Where a New York Senator speaks for 14,741,445 people, Pat speaks for only 158,283-the smallest state population in the nation...
...Iowa, the Democrats were perking up. Their senatorial candidate was Al Loveland, who quit his job as Under Secretary of Agriculture to campaign on the Brannan Plan, and then decided not to mention it at all. Instead, he incessantly reminded farmers of 10? corn and 2? hogs back in 1932, and tried to tag Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, a Cedar Rapids lawyer, as the candidate of big business and a man uninterested in the farmer's problems. Republicans were worried...
...almost forget to mention one thing. Harvard men think they are "Began Brummels," but they should go to a Winter. Carnival to really learn how to dress. I've never been so breathless in my life as when I saw all those browned Dartmouth men in their wonderful fuzzy green sweaters and those trim blazer instead of a ordinary jacket...
There was no mention at this round-table meeting of Chiang Kai-shek or Indo-China. MacArthur did most of the talking, and did so, said Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross, "magnificently." The meeting took exactly two hours...
There are few names that oldtime opera lovers care to mention in the same breath with Caruso and Scotti, but Claudia Muzio (1892-1936) is one of them. The daughter of an Italian operatic stage manager, she grew up backstage in London's Covent Garden, Manhattan's Metropolitan. Caruso, with whom she made a stunning U.S. debut as Tosca in 1916, once said that Claudia "knew all of our stage tricks before she wore long skirts." She had a voice to match her acting: she could, and did, sing coloratura, lyric and dramatic soprano parts with equal ease...