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...Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...
...overly literary simile ends right there, however. You don't have to look for a Pied Piper to explain this exodus. All you have to do is leaf through the calendar, and let your eyes light on May 29. What does it suggest...
Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...ANSON C. PIPER...
...Palaces. The pilots were blond, boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye...