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...white-haired lawyer from Wall Street sat in a straw hut at Panmunjom last week, while Chinese and North Korean Communists on the other side of the table paid him their respects. "Warmonger! Liar! Rogue! Slicker!" they cried. "You are bloody-handed, deceitful, stupid. We must warn you to behave!" The American leaned back and laughed...
After a night as the President's house guests, the royal couple moved across the street to Blair House and began a nonstop, two-day official tour. At Mount Vernon, in a pouring rain, the slicker-clad King placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. At the next wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington Cemetery, the Queen tweaked the nose of a small boy who was standing nearby. "What a doll!" sighed a girl under an umbrella. "That's a lot of king," murmured a man, as the 6-ft. 4-in. Paul passed by. At lunch...
Nobody in Denver ever saw a salesman who could match bluff Fred Ward, 43, a 200-lb. slicker who "could talk a mole out of his hole." He blew into town in 1939, soon landed a job selling Dodges. In two years, he was selling more Dodges than anybody else in the region, set up his own business, Fred Ward Inc., and started selling Hudsons. Soon he was distributor for Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nebraska...
...Blue Veil, a much slicker job with an imposing cast, tells the sad, sad story of a determinedly selfless woman (Jane Wyman) who goes through life (in four episodes) mothering other people's children and hiding her sorrows behind the traditional blue veil of the old-world governess. The picture is well calculated to please the kind of audiences who confuse a good cry with a good movie...
...like Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft, who try to cover their bald spots by combing up a fringe of hair, are known as "slicker-overers," charged a fellow Republican Senator. Said Colorado's Eugene D. Millikin, who is billiard-bald himself: "How can you get any place in politics if you deceive people...