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...whose own rise paralleled the go-getting success stories it pioneered, came to an unhappy ending. Smith announced that with its August issue the magazine would fold up, leaving the company with Collier's and Woman's Home Companion. Into Companion went a new editorial regime to snap the magazine out of the doldrums...
...little wearily, Earl Long admitted one day last week that "during the campaign I said I still had the snap in my garters. Now some of it has snapped out." But lest anyone think that means he isn't going to be around for a long time to come, he grinned and added: "I'm the last of the red-hot poppas in Louisiana politics, just like Sophie Tucker is the last of the red-hot mommas...
Walking out from his Moscow residence in a cream suit and white snap-brim hat, with his wife, Tito pointed out the house in Pushkinskaya Street where he lived in the 30's, paid a visit to the famed Lux (renamed Excelsior) Hotel, onetime headquarters of the Comintern, from which hundreds of foreign Communists were dragged in midnight raids during the great purges. Taking refuge from crowds of gaping Russians in an ice-cream parlor, Tito ordered champagne and cakes...
...confident about the President's chance for a full recovery. That chance is indeed good. Perhaps 15%, not more than 35%, of ileitis patients who undergo surgery later have recurrences, sometimes requiring further operations. Ike's prospects are indicated by the remarkable vitality that enabled him to snap back so successfully after his heart attack...
...Alley. In The Horses, a corporal named Peer helps care for 800 hunger-crazed horses. As he daily enters the stockade with his bag of oats, the milling, rearing horses snap at the feed...