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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phonetic change from the "s" to the "sh" sound is contemporary and popular as shmmo, schlamiel, sham. Synonyms are glop, shmo, jerk, goof, sad sack, "Marty," poorish...
...announced a remarkable answer to that question. Pitting Eisenhower against Stevenson in 13 Southern states,* Gallup found that 56% like Ike. 40% are for Stevenson and 4% are undecided. Eisenhower's percentage was a big gain over his vote in 1952. It was also well above the biggest popular vote that a G.O.P. candidate for President ever got in the South: Herbert Hoover's 52% over Al Smith...
...prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife . . . The Taft-Hartley law would have me resign from all that's not in conformity with popular beliefs...
Political Career: After the war, he became a teacher of Italian at a technical school, helped found Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party (forerunner of the Christian Democrats). Elected to Parliament in 1919, he served briefly in Mussolini's first government, but when Mussolini began to show his iron hand, Gronchi resigned. Barred from teaching because he refused to take the Fascist oath of allegiance, he became a salesman, first of neckties, then of American-made paints, worked his way up and ended as owner of a prosperous synthetic-varnish factory...
...almost 50 years ago to the month that Artur Rubinstein first played in Carnegie Hall (a mere coincidence, he insists-"I hate anniversaries"). In that half century he has grown from a prodigy to a musical playboy to a great artist with the broadest popular following of any front-rank musician in the world. The compact dignity of his entrances, his ramrod back and frizzled grey crown, his highhanded hammering of the keyboard are known and loved wherever there are pianos...