Word: smile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television men and newsmen assembled for the Dewey press conference. Dewey walked in-a small, compact, aggressive man. For the space of five solid minutes, while photographers shot him, radiomen adjusted microphones, moviemen flapped their arms around his head in signals, he held his mouth in a radiant, frozen smile. "How do you feel, Governor Dewey?" In an emphatic baritone, pausing after each word, he said: "I feel swell...
...moored by the feet atop the Broad Street marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. He was a 15-ft. balloon-rubber elephant with an upraised trunk, a flapping lower lip and a silly smile...
...SMILE AT THE FOOT OF THE LADDER (125 pp.)-Henry Miller-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...came home to the land he despised. Now mellowed and middle-aged (56) and married, he lives with his young third wife and two-year-old daughter near Carmel, Calif. His new book is unlike anything he ever wrote before. Decorated with prints by Chagall, Picasso and Rouault, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder contains not one touch of profanity. It is also written with surprising restraint. The Smile is the story of a clown, Auguste, who throws up his career to find true bliss in just being himself. "To be yourself, just yourself, is a great thing...
Rocketing Train. That night he turned on his smile for the state's Republican delegation (only one man failed to show up: he was in a hospital). He charmed everyone in sight, went off to bed early. The next morning he rocketed off to Richmond. No sooner had he stepped off the train than an enthusiastic city committeewoman rushed up, bussed him on the cheek and burbled later: "I was just so happy I hardly knew what I was doing. I doubt if the governor even remembers it." Gallantly Dewey told a press conference: "Do you think I could...