Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raymond Stephen McKeough, now Congressman from Cook County, was picked by Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash machine as the candidate to oppose Brooks, when Mayor Ed Kelly failed to get an endorsement from President Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 9). Old (78), horse-loving Pat Nash, who got rich tearing up Chicago's streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely...
...Zealand (pop: 3,122,000-less than Chicago) has suddenly become important to the U.S. And Pat Hurley, angular but still handsome, is an important figure of a man. He joined the A.E.F. as a cavalry officer in World War I, was cited for gallantry, promoted to lieutenant colonel. He lately helped negotiate a ticklish oil agreement between the U.S. and Mexico (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). Raised to the rank of brigadier general (reserve) last month, Pat Hurley stepped off into the Pacific before anybody knew where he was going. He went under sealed orders, left beauteous Mrs. Hurley behind...
Irwin Shaw's material is fresh, and he handles it with rich understanding and superb technique-up to a point. Then he lays it on too thick or too pat. Perhaps his professionalism is to blame. Perhaps the author of Bury The Dead is more naturally a playwright than a storyteller. Tricks of overemphasis, which get by on stage, look as uneasy in print as theatrical make-up does in a living room...
High spot of the show is fat Movie Director Alfred Hitchcock's tiny 13-year-old daughter Pat who, never having been on a professional stage before, won rave notices for the delightful way she carried off her enormous role. Pat has no desire for a movie career but wants to be a "struggling artist" and live in a theatrical boarding house...
...with orchids, Brazil's suave; nimble-witted Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stepped on to the floor to greet various delegates at the opening session. But when Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú came in, walking gingerly, Oswaldo Aranha hurried forward to shake hands, pat his shoulder, and chat warmly. For Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú was the man who might wreck the Conference. He was the man to watch...