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...Party platform (to all intents it was written at the White House), San Antonio's gobliny Mayor Maury Maverick prescribed for the Democratic Party "that aggressive spirit which has made it great." He evoked the Mavericks who pioneered in Texas: "They came praying to God and shootin' Indians. That's the way this country was built and it's the way it's got to be kept alive." One night-Maury Maverick continued-his wife found him praying, said she was "glad that you are praying...
...Netherlands did not arrest its black-shirted onetime waterworks engineer, Anton Adrian Missert (TIME, April 22), but old Dutch General Jonkheer W. Roell, a retired fire-eater who once commanded the Army, growled that shootin' was too good for traitors. He would hang 'em. The Netherlands declared a state of siege, began raiding Dutch Nazis' homes for arms and uniforms...
...huntin', shootin' and fishin' aristocrat of old England is Esme Ivo Bligh, 9th Earl of Darnley, a product of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, a major in the R.A.F. right through World War I. Last week he startled the Empire by rising in the House of Lords to urge that Great Britain should try to make with Germany an immediate peace without victory...
...twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from 19 to 65. Meanwhile, his writers turned out a script for a "rollickin', rootin', tootin', shootin' drama of the Great Outdoors...
...Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" presents the thrilling spectacle of the weak child hero who rises to the occasion at the crisis, rides his horse to a spectacular victory in the big race, foils the crooks, and converts his wayward jockey friend into a straight shootin', honest guy (tomato"). Ronald Sinclair as the boy-hero is a carbon copy of Freddie Bartholomew, English accent...