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...December the Reds boasted over their loudspeakers that they would be in Seoul by Christmas-but made no effort to get there. For New Year's Eve, they invited the Eighth Army boys to come on over and enjoy a big celebration. Next day they outdid themselves by threatening a "general offensive" for Sunday, Jan. 4. When Sunday rolled around, there was no attack, major or minor. Most sectors were, in fact, unusually quiet...
Riding only his two specialties-bareback broncs and wild bulls-the self-made cowboy outdid the best from the West, and won world titles in both events...
...Jersey & Civil Rights. New Jersey outdid even Texas in its welcome. In the elevenmile drive from Hackensack to Paterson (a strongly unionized area), some 150,000 people turned out. Stopping in town after town, Eisenhower attacked Washington corruption, the Brannan Plan, and (somewhat surprisingly) the withholding tax-which, he said, fooled the people. At Newark he hit back hard at Harry Truman. Main points...
...Seven months ago, former Newsman Tom Mechling, 31, and his pretty brunette wife Margaret set out on a campaign tour that outdid the Fuller Brush man. Taking turns at the wheel of an auto trailer, they toured Nevada 18 hours a day, seven days a week, ringing doorbells and chatting with registered voters-Mechling estimated a total of 60,000 of them. Last week, at trip's end, Tom Mechling won Nevada's Democratic nomination for Senator in one of the year's most startling political upsets. His defeated opponent: popular, former State Attorney General Alan Bible...
Last week, in his three-story house high atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, Clarence Lindner, 62, died of a heart attack. His chief competitor, the San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Paul Smith, provided an epitaph: "I respected Lindner because he outdid me on everything I ever tried...