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Before leaving office three years ago, McCall talked of forming a "Third Force" in American Politics--outside of, yet competing against, the two party system. Whether the idea has amounted to anything, or whether it merely represented the vague ramblings of a frustrated Ralph Nade is unclear. But McCall will be speaking in Piper Auditorium on April 18 at 8 p.m., and he may throw some light on where he and his hoped-for movement are going...
Franqaix: Sérénade B-E-A (Pasquier Sextet; Esoteric). A perfumed, witty and impudent serenade in the Gallic manner. Its object is the praise of womankind, plus solution of a technical puzzle: the three letters of the title are its thematic notes...
Gunther's mouth often seems as wide open as his eyes. Noting that F.D.R. and his mother both nearly died at his birth from an overdose of chloroform, he ponificates: "Of such hairbreadths is history nade." A shudder passes over him when he recalls that Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928 by only 25,000 votes: "His whole future career was made possible by less than 1 per cent of the electorate. What would have happened to America in the turbulent 19303-and later , -if this minuscule handful of voters had gone the other way?" Admirers...
Billy Hull once said: "Cord was always just like a grown man, from the time he could walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
...them were in the habit of reading the editorials he writes for the New York Evening World. But few of them had realized what a whacking fine speaker he is. Last week, when nationally important Democrats met again in Washington, they elected the mild-mannered Manhattanite-Orator Claude Ger-nade Bowers, native of Indiana-to make the party's keynote speech at Houston next month...
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