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Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...
Undramatic but competent, the new bishop calls himself "a plodder," gets many more men to church and spends far more time ringing doorbells than does the average big church minister. Trinity's congregation of 2,232 ranges from Back Bay drawing rooms to slum tenements. Dr. Hart visited them...
...lifetime of service." Early marked as a sound fellow, Togo was one of twelve young officers sent to England to get his training straight from the lion's mouth. To his British instructors too he seemed sound. "He was not what you would call brilliant, but a great plodder, slow to learn, but very sure when he had learnt; and he wanted to learn everything!" When his mates called him "Johnny Chinaman" he took it in good part, said nothing, plugged ahead. After two years in England Togo got back to Japan to find that his superiors...
...last B.A.A. marathon proved a lot. It proved that in the future a man may run as fast as he likes, according to how much fuel he wants to burn. Take Johny Kelly, for example, an ordinary plodder, but filled with a burning desire to win this inter-suberb camel-trek. He calls up Harvard University, Uni. 7600, and asks for the Fatigue Research Laboratory. He asks Professor Henderson if he can become one of "Henderson's Men" and is accepted by the great blood-chemists. Henderson gives him the dope for winning marathons, a dozen little glucose sugar pills...
...record of the past,'' is really organized gossip; but among the historians who retail it there are generally more bores than raconteurs. Historian Ralph Roeder is no bore. His crowded subject, the climax of the Italian Renaissance (1494-1530), could easily trip and entangle a pedestrian fact-plodder, but Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time, The Man of the Renaissance...