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There was never any doubt that tall, toothy Senator Jim Mead would be nominated for Governor and 68-year-old Herbert H. Lehman, ex-Governor and ex-director of UNRRA, for Senator. That had been settled long ago. The problems facing the bosses were 1) how to sew up A.L.P. support and 2) add at least one fresh face to the ticket...
...Hugh A. Drum. Longtime (44 years) professional soldier, Hugh Drum was head of the U.S. First Army until he retired in 1943, is now commander of New York's State Guard, had accompanied Tom Dewey on his 1944 campaign trip. The word from Albany seemed, in effect, to sew the nomination up for General Drum (who is Al Smith's successor as head of the Empire State Building). But it only set Bill Donovan's supporters to working harder. Next week's G.O.P. state convention would still have a lively ring...
...only bad moment came midway in the first half, when left guard Saul Mariaschin went out of the game with a deep cut over his eye. As in the Yale game, however, he came right back in the second half to sew up what was left of the contest...
...modern' artist. It took an awful long time. I soon learned to think of color more or less objectively so that I could paint a green tree red without batting an eye. Purple or green faces didn't bother me at all, and I even learned to sew buttons and glue excelsior on the canvas without feeling any sense of guilt...
Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...