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...House of Commons, Winston Churchill gave the state's endorsement to the church's plea. "Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant and venomous things that are said," declared the Prime Minister, "but on the whole we would rather lump them than do away with...
High Noon (Frankie Laine; Columbia). A folk-style ditty from the picture of the same name. Blues-Belter Laine voices the passionate plea, "Do not forsake me," and a confusion of other thoughts, over a throbbing tom-tom beat...
...delegates seemed impatient with the time-honored ritual-the prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the welcoming speeches, and the chair's plea, repeated like an incantation, to clear the aisles. Gabrielson delivered his opening speech, his eyes glued to a gadget on the speaker's stand known as the teleprompter (which spells out a prepared speech line for line on a moving band). Said he, in a political cliche with a hard core of truth: "The fate of the world is in the hands of these delegates...
This is a plea to all delegates to the convention...If you Republicans are statesmen and not mere politicians, you must realize that Eisenhower is ideally fitted to lead the country. He is a gifted organizer and a superb mediator. With the proper politically experienced helpers behind him (not just bitter opponents to the Demo-donkeys), he could do more for the country-and the Republican Party-than a dozen didactic Tafts...
Hugh Amory read his Poem, and Dustin M. Burke the Class Ode, after which Chorister James L. Harkless led in its singing to the tune of "Fair Harvard." Sandwiched between these literary notes was a plea for money by President of the Alumni Association William M. Rand '09, and a welcome to the ranks of the Ten Thousand Men by Henry R. Guild, head of the Harvard Club of Boston, and representing the Associated Harvard Clubs...