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...governors and others, Tom Dewey got a lot of politicking done. He heard some things he did not like. The governors frankly discussed the great amount of favorable talk for General Ike Eisenhower. Massachusetts' politically wise Governor Robert Bradford told Candidate Dewey that he would not be a shoo-in for the 1948 nomination; Bradford said he thought an early-ballot nomination was not possible and some of the other governors nodded agreement. Take Massachusetts, said Bradford: its delegates were going to be for Favorite Son Leverett Saltonstall as long as he was in the running. Bob Bradford hastened...
...Shoo! In Chicago, Mrs. John L. Bennett, whose husband manufactures flyswatters, sued for divorce, complained that he swatted...
Ecuador. The Salinas air base has been turned over to Ecuador, with a few technicians on hand to keep sand out and the field in shape. At the Galapagos air base (four hours by air from the Panama Canal), a crew of U.S. technicians helps the Ecuadorians shoo the giant turtles off the two fine runways...
Christopher Blake--At the Plymouth. Moss Hart's first play since his wartime pageant, "Winged Victory,' and a very controversial drama it is. Reactions to it have varied all the way from a "shoo-in for the Pulitzer Prize" to "not a success," with many puzzled audiences unable to make up their their minds. It deals with the problem of divorce and leans heavily (some say too heavily) on dream sequences, with the crisis coming in the child's choice between his mother and father. At any rate, it is a theatrical experience of high order...
...months before, an eager young jazz enthusiast named Michael Levin, editor of Down Beat, had dropped in at Sandy's, a bar-&-grill joint in Paterson, N.J. He found the barflies listening to the Mooney group in reverent silence, saw Proprietor Sandy shoo out paying customers who dared talk above the music. Levin listened for six hours, went completely overboard, and started a one-man Mooney campaign. He coaxed musicians, bandleaders and managers into making the trip to Paterson to hear "the most exciting musical unit in the U.S. today," devoted nine columns to Mooney in Down Beat, started...