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...year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give a damn about the money. I won't get any of it, anyhow. I'd have stayed if they had just shoved that commercial over to Parsons...
With that, handsome, fast-talking Stu Symington, who had already incurred the Navy's rage for assailing its theories of strategic bombing, had drawn down on himself the wrath of the ground forces. At the end of the week he was a little rueful, feeling that he had overreached himself. He had certainly made it clear that the ideas of the armed services had not been "merged...
Among the best pictures in the show was a 17th Century scroll portraying an Indian named Bodhidharma who had brought Buddhism to China's Emperor Wu in the year 527, and left in a huff when Wu wouldn't listen. After the sage had departed, Wu felt rueful and sent a messenger to call him back. The messenger returned with strange news: Bodhidharma had politely declined the invitation, and when last seen was crossing the turbulent Yangtze, borne on a reed...
...Rueful Laugh. Though Boss Arvey's candidates were political newcomers, they were newcomers who might be more promising than many a well-known party hack. His men: Adlai Stevenson, 47, the U.S.'s alternate delegate to the U.N., who will run against shopworn Governor Dwight H. Green; and Paul Douglas, 55, University of Chicago professor of economics, who will try to unhorse rabble-rousing Senator C. Wayland Brooks...
Most Democratic workers knew Candidate Stevenson only as a name. A grandson of Grover Cleveland's Vice President, he is a suave, able, well-liked socialite lawyer with an anxious expression, a rueful laugh, a lemony sense of humor-and a tongue in his head that has won him a reputation in Chicago for soundly progressive ideas. He has been away from Chicago for nearly seven years. He served as a wartime assistant to Secretaries Frank Knox, Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius; he went abroad on several missions for the State Department. Stevenson has numerous friends both...