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...main reason I went into politics," Skeffington tells Adam, "was because it was the quickest way out of the cellar and up the ladder." Skeffington never forgets that there are plenty of votes to be picked up, back in the cellars of poverty, with new dentures, a pair of eyeglasses, some funeral money or a job. He runs on two planks: 1) "All Ireland must be free"; 2) "Trieste belongs to Italy...
...company's quickest killing came during Hollywood's 3-D bonanza in 1953. As the only U.S. maker of the glasses needed to see movies in depth, it was soon making 12 million pairs a month, grossed over $26 million that year. In 1954, when 3-D dwindled and died, Polaroid was doing so well with other products that profits stayed up over the million-dollar mark. In 1955 Polaroid will probably net close...
...aside the dress suit and went looking for work. After bit parts in twelve of the quickest flops in Broadway history, he applied to the major networks for a job in radio. They turned him down on the grounds that his voice was "too cold to appeal to women listeners." Then the full-dress suit came in handy. It got him a spot broadcasting gossip from nightclubs for an independent station...
...today's Army, parachute jumping is the quickest way up. Last week three parachute generals leaped upward in the Army's top echelons. The three...
...match, Leverett's pile-driving Jack Canning won the quickest bout of the night as he KO'd Dave Hoffman of Lowell in the first 40 seconds of round...