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Since networks and stations had little detailed program information, TV Guide's Publisher James Quirk, veteran Philadelphia newsman and onetime press chief for General Matthew Ridgway in Korea and Japan, had to hire reporters to do the job. TV Guide's staffers scour the studios for news, talk to directors and casts to find out what dramas are about, carefully write plot summaries to tell enough, but not too much, of the story. Program listings of coast-to-coast shows go out over TV Guide's own leased wires, and often local stations call up the regional...
...Eater of Cangulo. By an odd quirk of politics, the man who succeeded Vargas had spent most of his political life opposing him. Getulio Dornelles Vargas was the son of a cattle-rich general from Rio Grande do Sul. Joao Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived...
...today," Kennedy said, "even if by some quirk of the grading system the student stands in the upper half of his class and had a high score on the deferment test, Selective Service has suggested to boards in this area that they give him a 1-A classification." It is still up to the local board, however, to make the final decision...
...Nazi propaganda got more attention in the foreign press than it did in Germany. Even in Lower Saxony, where a quirk in the voting laws gives each registered voter three separate votes, only four overt Nazis, one of them Schepmann, were elected to office. Of 18 million votes cast in West Germany, neo-Nazi and right-wing radicals netted about...
...strength of the Republican tide sapped even the strongest Democratic citadels. South Carolina, after wavering for hours, finally fell to Stevenson - but only through a quirk in the balloting. Be cause the Eisenhower vote was divided between two separate sets of electors, Stevenson was holding a precarious plurality...