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...when the noses of the circuit court sniffed a decidedly gamy smell curling up from Detroit and suburban Hamtramck. The police blandly assured them that everything was O.K., but the circuit court decided to poke around, appointed Judge Ferguson (under a peculiar Michigan law) to sit as a one-man grand jury and find out what was making the stink...
Oren Root Jr., a youthful lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...
Indeed, Vag had always had a feeling of kinship with Frost, the patron saint of all vagabonds . . . that would be a good idea, too: asking Frost to be the Honorary Chairman of his one-man organization. He'd heard a lot about one-man organizations recently. Anyway, Vag decided that he must hear Frost tonight, and planned to get there early, sit in front and watch the subtle, humorous play of expression over the poet's face when he spoke, Adams House tonight at eight...
Five minutes early for the Chekhov lecture, Vag got a choice seat on the floor with his knees doubled up under him. He thought more about Buddha than "The Cherry Orchard" that night. Then he pulled in at a quarter before the hour to hear the one-man debate on Barrie vs. Galsworthy and sat in great discomfort on a window ledge...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, one of Harvard's busiest undergraduates, is now a one-man organization and in that capacity is sponsoring Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's speech in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight...