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Buckeye State. Ohio swept out the Republican (Ed Schorr) machine, swept in a new kind of Democratic politician: gangling, idealistic, good-government crusader Frank Lausche, 48, mayor of Cleveland. A party independent, Frank Lausche beat a party hack, James Garfield ("Jovial Jim") Stewart, longtime mayor of Cincinnati and roly-poly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Governors | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Typical of those busily sprouting bulbs into a big business is Tony Cefalu (pronounced sefi-allo), 50, a roly-poly, Sicilian-born ex-tavernkeeper. Like most of the others, Tony is growing the Croft, a white, sturdy, strong-stemmed Easter lily that multiplies at the rate of 150 bulbs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLOWERS: The Lily Boom | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Roger Dearborn Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fun & Games | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

The Rim Expands. Among the western columns were reportedly those of Major General Wade H. Haislip's XV Corps, which had swung in behind the enemy to form the pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Ration's Poniards | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

The swift interplay of forces began when the plane bringing Henry Wallace back from Chungking touched the runway at Fairbanks, Alaska. Roly-poly Samuel Rosenman, the President's speechwriter and confidant, who is now filling much of Harry Hopkins' old role, was already burning the long-distance wires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Struggle | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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