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...Mayor over Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, by a record-breaking majority vote. Born & bred in Massachusetts, Mayor-elect Dore went West 20 years ago, learned his law by lamplight while reporting police news for Seattle newspapers. Clever, sarcastic, affable, he has made a reputation as one of the smartest defense attorneys in the Northwest. Married, father of three daughters and a son, he gave up drinking and smoking several years ago because of his health. To him in his campaign, the Seattle electorate was hardly more than one enormous jury to be swayed back & forth by courtroom oratory. Besides unhinging...
...headlines for days (TIME, Feb. 8). Rev. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society described for gumchewers the last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert Norwood of St. Bartholomew's, one of the smartest and richest of U. S. Protestant Episcopal churches.? Dr. Norwood's Sunday sermons draw large and genteel crowds. Weddings in St. Bartholomew's are society page news. Last week St. Bartholomew's made news of a different sort...
...Eduard Benes ("Smartest Little Statesman in Europe"), Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, demanded that the Conference go on and on and on and on until everyone was exhausted and worn down to the point of signing "The First Convention for Limitation and Reduction of Armaments"?a smart idea, going the Japanese one better...
Either the world's luckiest man or one of the smartest, Henry Ford announced his new cars the day the Glass-Steagill bill came out of the White House...
...they are obstreperous but gradually they become addicted to honesty and industry. The star pupil of what Batalov calls the "Children's Commune" is a stubby youth named Mustapha (Tzyvan Kyrla), with the figure of a baboon, the face of a gargoyle and the courage of a juvenile Lenin. Smartest of pickpockets when he roved the Moscow streets, Mustapha helps lick his cronies into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great moment...