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...Mexico City, Miguel golfed almost weekly with the President. Another hopeful politico, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, was usually in the foursome. The President liked both "boys," but he liked Miguel a little better and he gave him the nod for the 1946 presidential race...
...Senator Beauregard Claghorn (Kenny Delmar), a julep-slupping burlesque of a Southern politico, a latter-day Civil Warrior with a mouth as big as the Mississippi's and a brain the size of a hominy grit. The Senator's development has been arrested in an artistic sense, too. After only six minutes on the air (four programs), his "That's a joke, son!" and "That is" were national bywords. Allen, who intended the Senator to have a far larger comic vocabulary, has been forced to give the public what it wants: plenty of nothing...
...almost before the reader knows it, years & years have passed and Chloe is drifting to her death in Latin America, having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...
Hartz graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1930 and received his Ph.D. here last year. Since 1945 he has been a teaching fellow here. His book, "The People's Will: A Study of Politico-Economic Thought in Pennsylvania, 1776-1860," is now in press...
...happy GOPsters heaved up from the table and packed their bags for the trip home, they heard some words of caution from caustic old author-politico Clarence Budington Kelland: "What this party's got to do is get in there and earn the victory it won at the polls...