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...stoneworking shops for children's homes, wrote a book, Adventure in Jade, on his expeditions up & down the U.S. He even took his hobby to work. At sales' meetings Businessman Kraft would hand out jade lucky charms from his workshop, sandwich in a little pep talk. "Rub this between the palms of the hand until warm," he would say, "make a wish, then go out and work like hell...
...Rockne fans may still believe in pep talks, but Strategist Waldorf, no orator, says that "the day of the inspired locker-room oration has long since passed." He pins his hopes on "long hours of hard work on the practice field...
...some 500 Taft delegates met in the Hilton Hotel ballroom for a preballot pep rally. Cried Taft lieutenant Paul Walter: "Are we going to stand firm?" Shouted the crowd: "Yes!" Everett Dirksen was on hand, too. "We are gathered here together to hold up each other's hands," said he, recalling how Moses needed two men to hold up his hands so that the Israelites could go on winning. "All hands to the wheel, Bob!" cried Dirksen, in the mixed metaphor of the year. "I am in your corner to the last ditch." Bob himself told the delegates that...
...fast-talking executive wound up his pep speech to a group of aspiring advertising copywriters by holding up a pack of "Sweet Caporal" cigarettes...
...rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained I'm Just Wild About Harry and Love Will Find a Way, and two or three of the new tunes are pleasant enough. But the score lacks class, and if the dancing sometimes, has the pep, it also has the formlessness of street urchins hoofing for pennies...