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Nevertheless, after he addressed the C.I.O. convention at Atlantic City last week, many a politico edged a little closer. When C.I.O. President Philip Murray said: "I would like you to know that every man & woman in this convention is your friend," hundreds in the hall decided that he really meant: "Eisenhower for President." And when the General addressed a group of New York business leaders that evening, it was possible to say that he was acting like a candidate at last. Said he: "All your brains and wealth cannot produce a single bushel of corn without hands...
Odell Shepard, Connecticut scholar, politico and Pulitzer Prize biographer (Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Al-cott), has collaborated with his son Willard Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast...
Died. Thomas L. Bailey, 58, Bilbo-hating Mississippi politico, Governor of the State since 1944; after long illness; in Jackson, Miss...
After Rogge's Swarthmore speech Pennsylvania Republicans gleefully recalled that pro-German Bill Davis once had connections with another prominent politico: Senator Joe Guffey, facing defeat...
Another zealous politico, refused to discuss the candidates with a comely non-voter of 18 or thereabouts when she announced that her parents were not at home and invited him in for the evening...