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...Protocol. As the 1948 campaign drew to its close, it was evident that it had induced a curious reaction. The most energetic efforts of two major and three minor candidates had apparently either soothed, dulled or completely anesthetized the electorate...
...candidates had faithfully observed campaign protocol. The men who sought the most important position in the world had-just like their predecessors-embraced babies, shaken hands with costumed Indians, and posed unflinchingly with fish and stuffed donkeys...
...have electric typewriters installed to speed up paper work. Result: in one week his secretaries got out 5,152 letters and telegrams. He met the Nicaraguan minister in plain business suit and without flowery speeches, announced that he wanted no part of tradition's stiff protocol...
...Marcel had got himself into Trotzkyite trouble; he was shot (according to one version) in a telephone booth. Some say that Ana gave evidence against him. Without flinching over Marcel's fate, Ana became a member of the Comintern Executive. She was one of the signatories of the protocol "dissolving" the Third International. One day at a meeting she attracted the attention of Andrei Vishinsky for her brisk delivery of a report. Vishinsky took her to see Stalin...
...story might have serialized nicely in the old American Boy. It is filmed (much of it at West Point) with romantic feeling for place and protocol, and there are appropriate performances by Ladd as the animated ramrod and by Miss Reed, the screen's All American Nice Girl. Most of the military people, however, are such Galahads, and most of the male civilians are such slobs, that ordinary men will probably slink out of the theater with their hats over their faces...