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Steadfast Bastard. Thus last week did Harry S. Truman, the snappin', cracklin', poppin' man from Missouri (TIME, Aug. 13), bring the 1956 Democratic Convention to life by twisting all the previous political equations. With Truman's twist, many Democrats were torn, e.g., Truman Biographer Jonathan Daniels of North Carolina, asked by Harry to support Harriman, replied mournfully: "I feel like a bastard at the family reunion. After you announced that you wouldn't run in 1952, you told me to go out and get Adlai Stevenson to run. Stevenson is still running...
Neither a "Tech's - a - poppin'" weekend crowd nor a co-ed cheerleading squad could help MIT in the Arena Saturday night as the Crimson successfully opened its hockey season with a 10 to 5 victory over the Engineers. But evens, the varsity did not turn in a polished performance...
From London Daily Expressmen overseas came congratulatory cables for plump, pink, self-confident Editor in Chief Arthur Christiansen. London staffers and Fleet Street competitors bought him double Scotches at Poppin's and The Bell and The Codgers, his favorite pubs...
Sons o' Fun (TIME, Dec. 15). Helza-poppin's first-born is a blue chip off the old block...
...Last week King Features announced a new comic strip, Elza Poppin, to be written by Olsen & Johnson...