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Utah Republicans date the beginning of their "dark age" from 1924; there has been no Republican governor since then. It got so dark by 1936 that there were only five Republicans in the state legislature (total seats: 83) and none from Utah in the U.S. Senate or House. Last week Utah's GOPoliticos were sure that the dawn had broken at last. For the first time since the state has had a direct primary (ten years), Republican voters outnumbered Democrats (67,000 to 54,000). They felt that the same ratio would apply in November...
...Bold. What would Chicagoans see when the great dusty-rose curtain goes up this week? There would be few breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and none would be as broad and nappy as U.S. ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes the world...
...they haven't got any hits." Out there on the mound, Rex Barney did not need to be told ("I always know when a guy comes up there what he's done the last time ... I remember the ones that have hit me, and there were none to remember...
...wasn't worrying about the great past. He had already made a fortune collaborating on tunes like Little Sweetheart of the Ozarks, and songs for children (he has none himself) like The Sly Little...
Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...