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...matadors today was a small boy of fourteen years, who survived a couple of run-ins with the bull and went on to defeat him. This brave lad possessed all the gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...
...through the night while correspondents listened to their discussions and badgered them for statements. With few facts at hand, many on the Eisenhower staff and most of the reporters adopted the framework set up by the Post and Democrat Mitchell; the discussion got down to an argument on the pros & cons of kicking Nixon off the ticket. Train correspondents reported the news that the Post story had thrown the Eisenhower train into a panic; by next morning the correspondents were typing out the sensational word that the matter of dropping Nixon was under consideration by Eisenhower's staff. With...
...described himself as a "complete amateur." However, Mitchell's amateur standing is open to question. Although he has helped to raise campaign funds for Chicago's Mayor Kennelly and for Stevenson, he is certainly not a professional politician in the old sense. The line of the old pros is running thin as the power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney type tend to have the look of the breed without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears...
...National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros, the 18-hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...together. The Citizens Committee for Eisenhower, whose enthusiastic political amateurs had whipped up Eisenhower support before the "convention, now wanted an independent role in the campaign.. Committee leaders argued that independent voters and disgruntled Democrats would not be attracted to the regular party organization. The citizens and the pros reached a compromise: the national committee will have the right to coordinate all activities, but the Citizens Committee will retain its separate identity...