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After the committee had wrangled for 2½ hours, Paul Butler-who had backed Kerr-came out of the meeting to announce that Frank Clement had won the keynote spot. In Nashville, "Guv'nah Frank" tore up a telegram of congratulations he had prepared for Bob Kerr, allowed happily as how "we've had more telegrams and telephone messages on this than when we were re-elected governor...
...Nah, I got him," said the other...
...proudly, and his chatter about celebrities in his column, "The Lyons Den," syndicated to 74 dailies, earns him $65,000 a year. This week Columnist Lyons explained why name-dropping makes a successful column. "Would you [like me to] tell you about a dinner party for my Uncle Max? . . . Nah, you really don't want to hear about that . . . The basic fact of newspaper life is that if any Uncle Max-unless it's Beerbohm, Beaverbrook or Factor-breaks a leg, it never makes the news columns . . . The appetites of newspaper readers are for the Kings and Stars...
...that what he has been running after is to stop running. ("When striving stops, the truth comes as a gift-bounty, harmony, love . . .") He asks: "Is the laugh at nature-including eternity-that it thinks it can win over us and the power of hope?" And answers, Chicago-style: "Nah, nah! ... It never will...
...Including a deliberate mispronunciation of the dictator's name, reminiscent of Churchill's contemptuous references to "Nahsy" for -Nazi." He pronounces it "Nee-gwuib" instead of "Nah-geeb," and with an air that seems to say no respectable fellow should have such a name...