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...movement was not making much of a dent in the Taft stronghold in the Midwest. Snapped the Chicago Tribune last week, commenting on Eisenhower's candidacy: "The American people are asked to buy a pig in a poke. They are asked to accept as a Republican a man whose whole career has been achieved through New Deal patronage . . . Why should the party advertise that it is utterly wanting in conviction by accepting a candidate who represents the basic tenets of the opposition...
Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...
...Slow Poke (Arthur Godfrey; Columbia), a fast-moving hillbilly song about a girl (or a fellow) with all the time in the world. A surprisingly straightforward Godfrey version of a number that is breaking out all over the bestseller lists, and climbing hard...
...chorus of frenzied cries wailed up from Capitol Hill as a House subcommittee continued to poke at the Internal Revenue Bureau scandals. Almost all the voices were raised in answer to the shrill tones of a sharp-eyed Chicago lawyer named Abraham Teitelbaum. Attorney Teitelbaum, who described his late client Al Capone as "one of the most honorable men I ever knew," is in tax trouble with the Government-a matter of at least $130,000 in unpaid income taxes. It looked as if this trouble would be settled without much difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named...
...Army was complaining about faulty steel, and Fairless was told to settle the trouble. Fairless, demonstrating his ability to find common-sense solutions to problems, broke a paper clip in half, handed half to the Army inspector and suggested: "If any steel has pits big enough for us to poke this clip in, let's agree it's faulty." The officer, delighted with the idea's simplicity, agreed; most of the steel passed the test. Griffiths, who later became president of Central Steel was delighted too: he boosted this promising youngster to superintendent, then general manager...