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...Naturally, we consider Stassen's two victories in the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries a most encouraging sign," Pierce continued, "but we cannot slack up in our efforts to guarantee his nomination, and subsequent election. Tonight's meeting is one of the first in a series of planned measures to accomplish that...
...Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of his models) with black bangs, pinched features, a slack, heavy body and long, almost painfully sensitive hands. She sits motionless and exhausted, her narrow dark eyes smudged with dismay, or wanders across desolate landscapes...
...other hand, while improving in some of the running events, has lost its 10-point-a-meet hurdler, Wes Flint, along with other field veterans like Jack Fisher and Pete Harwood, all through graduation. Jeff Tootell and Dick Stokes were supposed to have taken up some of the slack in the shot put and hurdles but both of these men are currently on probation...
...short, Britain was edging close to bankruptcy. Without Marshall Plan aid, her position would soon be arithmetically hopeless. At Edinburgh last week, Cripps gave a somber summary: ". . . The whole future of our country really hangs in the balance. We have nothing to spare-no slack to take up. . . . The gold reserves of the sterling area are all that now stand between us and disaster...
...late Huey's brother sounded almost as good as the Kingfish himself. What was more, Huey's 29-year-old son Russell was stumping the state for Uncle Earl, and Russell looked just like the Kingfish, right down to his curly hair, pudgy nose and slack chin. It was like old times...