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...platforms are the same as in 1946. Led by deaf, adroit President Inönü, the Republicans are campaigning on Turkey's progress in the 27 straight years they have held power since the late great Kemal Ataürk expelled the last Sultan. Led by sober, intense ex-Premier Bayar, an Atatürk protégé ousted by Inönü in the jockeying after Atatürk's death, the Democrats declare that it is high time for a change...
...Bollinger, they wound up at a "girly show," and the man who claimed to be governor still hadn't been able to cash a check. When he got too noisy the cops arrested him as a drunk, locked him up for six hours, let him out when he sobered up. Said the husky, family-man governor, father of five: "I just did some drinking like any other visitor. I guess I had too much." On second, sober thought, he told reporters that there was "something mysterious about the whole thing," assured the A.P. in his home state, by long...
...Patrick who want to extend Dublin's beneficent domain and presumably would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys, O'Dwyers, McCarthys-"The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you; but it really does not matter whom...
...torn-between-love-and-duty ads, and a blithe unconcern for facts, "Eleanor of Aquitaine" could have led the best seller lists. As it is, Amy Kelly has written not a historical novel but a scrupulously documented history of the twelfth century. "Eleanor of Aquitaine" is a sober account of a game girl...
...Maurois has written a biography that almost seems an act of penance. His Proust is a sober, even severe book, faithful to the facts and next to Proust's letters themselves (TIME, Feb. 21, 1949), the best account of the great French novelist's life that is available...