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...Ohio's character is primarily Midwestern and its political temper is more conservative than that of most industrial states. The most effective political instrument in the state is the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican organization, headed by Congressman-at-Large George Bender, Bob Taft's white-gloved bell ringer at the Chicago convention. Star performer of this outfit is a Cleveland lawyer named Paul Walter, who in 1950 lined up 150,000 northern Ohio volunteers to work for Senator Robert Taft's reelection...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame isn't in Technicolor, but with Charles Laughton carrying the title role as a hideously deformed bell-ringer, this picture doesn't even need a sound-track...
...about the picture you showed of Dick Kazmaier's dad; am I wrong when I say that he is a ringer for "Red" Grange...
...frequently lost control of them. A succession of "Wherryisms" made him the Sam Goldwyn of Capitol Hill. He once promised another Senator "opple amportunity" to make a speech, called Oregon's Junior Senator Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from Junior." Other Wherryisms: "Chief Joints of Staff," "bell door ringer...
Then they discover a dead ringer for Smoky in a simple, clean-living cowpoke named Stretch Barnes. The hucksters frantically try to train him how to behave before the camera and in Hollywood society. Despite his gift for social errors, e.g., hailing Clark Gable jovially as "Sam," Cowpoke Barnes successfully fools the sponsor and the kiddies. But just as the double seems thoroughly entrenched, Agent White dredges the real Smoky out of a Cuban ginmill and rushes him back to Hollywood for rehabilitation...