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After 56 years the Italian Socialist Party had returned to its birthplace, Genoa's 16th Century Palazzo Ducale. Its drafty corridors bore the scent of political decay. Had Italian Socialism, corrupted by its alliance with the Communists, come home to die? Its leaders said not-but their expostulations carried little conviction, even to one another. Last week, the evidence of death was strong enough to warrant interment...
...Sniffing out numbers racketeers in Ford's sprawling Rouge plant, Dearborn's Police Chief Ralph Guy found himself on the scent of a $5,000,000-a-year gambling ring, employing over 600 Ford workers as writers, pickup men and runners. His prize catch: a plant committeeman of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, who, Guy reported, offered him $50,000 a year to lay off. Said Guy: "We know of some workers who frequently gamble away their entire week's pay without ever leaving the foundry...
Elementary. In New London, Conn., the Griswold Country Club solved the lost-golfball problem: it hired a pack of pointers and English setters and treated the balls with pheasant scent...
Republicans streamed into Philadelphia this week with a sense of determination and high purpose. The scent of victory was in the air. For the 24th National Republican Convention would do more than pick its candidate for the 1948 campaign. After 16 years of Democratic rule, Republicans were almost certainly choosing the next President of the United States...
...then comes Tilly Cuff. An angular, screechy older cousin of Mrs. Brocken, this creature, "yellow as a plucked chicken," is a busybody who can "scent a private conversation as a cat scents fish." Her cheeks hideously rouged, her arms like drumsticks and her gown some 20 years behind the fashion, Tilly barges into the well-arranged life of Chipping Lodge to create havoc. Mrs. Brocken has invited her because she has a guilty recollection of having, in girlhood days, maliciously prevented Tilly from accepting the one marriage offer ever to come her way. Now, as recompense, quixotic Mrs. Brocken proposes...