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...Republican Party should become a party of conservatives, would it ever win another election? Dewey's popular vote was only a shade larger than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will...
Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
...fact was that every big magazine had fewer newsstand buyers-but more subscribers-than a year ago. (Some were converting newsstand buyers into subscribers, to stabilize their circulation.) Most circulations were up a shade, and none had lost more than 90,000 in the first half of 1948. It was the ups & downs of newsstand sales that had hit the Ladies' Home Journal: its average sale for the six-month period was above its base of 4,500,000, but the April, May and June issues had fallen below it. So now the base was being lowered...
...amazed that the Bruckner Quintet is not heard more often; the Adagio is one of the most beautiful of its kind, and Tuesday's performance brought out its every shade. Granted that chamber music sounds differently played by a full orchestra, still it was a novel experience to hear Bruckner's Adagio done by one of the finest string sections anywhere...
...best single rule for TV fashions is neutrality. The whole thing hits hardest at women who dote on some shades of red -and at TV engineers who would like to show the girls in orange-red bathing suits. In television's strange alchemy, this shade simply disappears...