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That night 5,500 merry Republicans attended, at $12.50 a head, the inaugural ball in the Harrisburg Zembo Mosque, and Scranton himself was caught up in the enthusiasm of the occasion. He spun his wife around in a Viennese waltz and a polka, went a few fast fox trots with his 17-year-old daughter Susan, who took off her shoes in a display of considerable confidence. Later, Scranton performed a three-minute Charleston solo, causing a startled observer to exclaim, "Can you imagine what the Democrats will do with a picture of Scranton spread out in a Charleston position...
...animals, 2,000 extras, a $5,000,000 budget. Yet somehow in spite of, or because of, all the tanbark and trumpets, clowns and candy-butchers, high wires, low jinks and desperate little dogs that can't stop doing backward somersaults, Jumbo is a great big blubbery amiable polka-dotted elephant of a show, just the ticket for a holiday hoot with the wife and kiddies...
...Saturday game, Brandeis' home-coming, marked the first time Harvard has been defeated by the Judges. Besides the home team's successful strategy, factors in the upset may have included Crimson over-confidence and a capacity Brandeis crowd led by cheer-leaders in polka-dotted panties...
...subcommittee. Republican Dwight Eisenhower invited Passman to the White House. Ike meant to use all his great persuasiveness on Passman. But he never got a chance. No sooner had Passman entered the President's office than he launched into a long recitation, flung verbal graphs around the room, polka-dotted the President with decimal points, cascaded the room with statistics. When Passman finally left, the President turned to an aide. "Remind me," he groaned, "never to invite that fellow down here again...
Saroyan wrote this sort of ragpickers' polka, and so, in a quieter tempo, does Novelist Alma Stone. Her poor are the people of Manhattan's upper Broadway-watery-eyed men propped on their elbows in old. moneylosing bars, solitary old ladies who roost on park benches and share their tuna sandwiches with cats...