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Personality: White-haired and warmly blue-eyed, Wilson (5 ft. 10 in.) is quiet and reserved, speaks slowly (with a Midwestern twang), thinks fast, although he is not given to snap decisions. He once accepted a challenge by fast-talking Walter Reuther to a public debate, argued him to a draw. In his office he works between two desks with several briefcases at his feet and a couple of phones at his elbow. Wilson knows every part of the G.M. empire, often unexpectedly calls a junior executive in outlying plants. He works around the clock, forgetting the time, goes home...
...already overloaded bandwagon pulled to a groaning stop in front of the Paramount theatre this week to let The Turning Point show us how a professor named John Conroy would have handled the Kefauver Committee. In the process another unnamed, though typically midwestern city is purged of its civic bruises by the two fisted Conroy Crime Committee...
Perhaps no groups preached this democracy moire rabidly than the Harvard Union, college debating society which had formed twenty-five years before in imitation of the Unions at Oxford and Cambridge. For in the Union were the handful of Midwestern worshippers of Senator William Jennings Bryan who were Harvard's fiery-eyed radicals of the Gay Nineties. They convinced their Eastern colleagues to stop arguing the Free Silver question and turn their eloquence upon wealthy alumni to raise money for this new clubhouse. The debaters even offered to donate their society's name to the new structure...
...Adlai can lose," said the reporter from the Defender chain of Midwestern Negro newspapers. "Which states will Ike take? Not New York, not Illinois, not California. I've seen the crowds change from bored to enthusiastic. Since Milwaukee, they've been cheering Adlai...
...couple of hundred educators from 17 Midwestern states gathered in Kansas City, Kans. last week and listened to a call for vigorous action to keep education under local control and save it from the tentacles of big government. They liked and applauded what the speaker said-'We need not lose our freedom if we face up to our responsibilities...