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...beat vote getting Republican Governor Dwight Griswold next November. But no one expected that Pat Heaton, an able small-town lawyer and choice of the Democratic bosses, would lose the Democratic nomination. Yet last week when the primary votes were counted, Pat Heaton was 344 votes behind George W. Olsen, a baggy-clothed 62-year-old cafeteria bus boy at Omaha's Martin bomber plant, and an absolute political unknown. Sole reason for George Olsen's triumph: his Scandinavian name...
Danish-born George Olsen, onetime farmer and poultry operator, beneficiary of this nomenclatural luck, used his newfound fame to popularize his hobby. To correspondents he distributed copies of his formula for squaring the circle, which he has worked on since...
...Hastily Olsen & Johnson hauled Cline up on the stage, presented him with an ear of corn. But the master hecklers, Hollywood felt, had been outboxed as well as outfoxed...
...Just as Olsen & Johnson reached the punch line on a gag, a gentleman in a box dropped 40 clattering pots & pans...
...When Olsen & Johnson appeared in pink silk panties and cutaways, a couple down front began undressing. No sooner were they tossed out of the theater than the orchestra leader started to strip...