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...sell this issue last week, critical officials spoke of "testing the new stamps" and of substituting something more usual if they proved unpopular. In rushed hordes of the King's subjects and bought hand-over-fist some 30,000,000 Edwards. After this not even the crustiest oldster could well call the new King's stamp decision wrong...
...Rumanian people and their politicians, not to mention King Carol II, are frankly mercenary. Their last public love feast with France was at the time Rumania was visited with a splurge of lavish rewards by aged but scholarly and high-spirited French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. This twinkling-eyed oldster returned from the Balkans only to be shot dead along with Yugoslav's King Alexander a few days later at Marseille (TIME...
Only a very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than...
...candidates who trounced Senator Gore last week had outdone themselves in promising handouts from the public funds. The vision of $200 per month for every oldster helped the Townsendite candidate, Corner Smith, vice president of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Inc., to finish a strong third. As No. 2, Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland won the right to enter a runoff primary July 28 by singing the praises of Franklin Roosevelt, pointing to his own State's social security amendment. Even so, he ran well behind winning Representative Josh Lee, 44, whose New Deal-plus platform included "a farm for every...
...three burros, 74-year-old Peter Voiss supplemented the meagre income he made from prospecting by posing for snapshots. Two months ago, when Dentist Jasper Gattuccio refused to pay for taking a picture, Prospector Voiss shot him dead (TIME, May 11). On trial for murder last week, the whiskery oldster sat calmly in a San José. Calif, court while his attorney argued: "Dr. Gattuccio brought about his own death by stealing an old man's living for his own amusement. . . . The only home the old man had in the world was his cart, his beloved burros, a little...