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Although they were voted down this year in the Republican City Committee 47-13, they went ahead and joined the New Boston Committee, a non-partisan organization that endorsed seven Democrats and two Republicans. Fine as this choice may sound, it pulled the rug out from under the other three Republicans running. Boston GOP voters (who have never numbered less than 75,000 regardless of how many have registered as such) were misled by the Shattuck-Forbes, Lund endorsement of the NBC into believing that their party was supporting Democrats. This split the GOP vote and three of the five...
...reward . . . But we are up against the boys in the political engine room [who] are offering all kinds of patronage, from postmasterships to U.S. attorneys' posts to all and sundry who will back their man." All Scott asked on behalf of Eisenhower supporters was "an assurance that the rug won't be pulled out from under their activities by any contrary statement from overseas...
Scollay Square's bars are not particularly lush--sawdust serves for a rug in a good many--but one can get as completely, unconsciously drunk in them as in the Copley's Merry-go-Round. That is enough of an attraction for their patrons...
When Harriman emplaned a few days later, the Foreign Minister was at hand to say goodbye. The Premier sent a huge bouquet of pink gladioli for Mrs. Harriman. Among the many gifts: an Isfahan rug (for Truman) and an antique rifle (for Harriman) from the Shah...
...lobby, paneled in glass and wood, has a rug with little colored dots woven in. Explained the proprietor: "We've got built-in food and ink spots and cigarette burns; now we don't have to worry." In the dining room, an enormous oak pedestal will be loaded with raw steaks so that each guest can select his own and brand it with a hot iron-"R" for rare, "M" for medium, "W" for well done...