Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tallulah Bankhead published a 326-page autobiography (Tallulah; Harper; $3.95), which began with a testy denial: "Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon." From then on, most of the book is a series of crisp confessions which fascinated at least one early reader. The publishers eagerly snatched at a warm blurb from Harry S. Truman: "I haven't been able to put it down. Undoubtedly the most interesting book I've had in my hands since I have been President of the United States...
...President, the Congress we elected, and the officers appointed under the Government." Harry Truman, said Wilson, had agreed to a "just" solution to the steel strike. "But the solution did not happen to give all that was wanted to one single man, this man who is able to ride roughshod over the President and the people. And he did just that. I could no longer tolerate an atmosphere that permitted so brazenly selfish an act... and I resigned...
...huffing & puffing locomotive on your cover to symbolize Dick Nixon is another flash of genius. But for me and my house, we'll ride...
...same speech, Stevenson got in a reference to aid to India, which is getting to be the stock Democratic way of changing the subject on China. Among the men who hoped to ride to Washington with Ike, said Stevenson, were some "who would rather hold post-mortems over the loss of China than do something now to save India...
First Offer. U.S. airline bosses were not long in getting the word of the Comet's fine performance. Recently, T.W.A.'s President Ralph Damon dropped in for a look at a De Havilland plant, and later went for a ride in the Comet; so did Pan American's President Juan Trippe. Then came Eastern Air Lines' economy-minded President Eddie Rickenbacker ("I count the pennies-then I count the mills"). Last week, after a 90-minute flight in a Comet, Rickenbacker became the first to announce that he was ready to place an order. Eastern, said...