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...will pick the 1948 nominee agreed that his chances had slithered off since last November-when he was head & shoulders above all others. Part of the reason was simply that a lot of GOPsters never liked him and still don't. Part was that the spotlight is now on Washington, not Albany. Talk of a tie-up with California's Earl Warren, which would strengthen his hand in the West, was dying out. On top of that there was the feeling expressed by one Midwesterner: "He has had his chance and now it's someone else...
...office, Maury had been credited with reducing traffic deaths and crime by 50%, rebuilding the health department, getting $6 million from the Federal Government for slum clearance and $4 million for civic beautification, reorganizing the police and fire departments and keeping San Antonio (and himself) in the national spotlight...
...come to pay homage to the third. For one evening last week their flaming public quarrels over art and politics were forgotten. Triple-chinned Diego Rivera's habitual garrulity was reduced to a murmured "magnifico, magnifico" as he passed from picture to picture. Fiery David Alfaro Siqueiros, a spotlight lover himself, knew well whose turn it was this night. He kept drawing Jose Clemente Orozco back into the limelight each time the shy, shabby little one-armed man tried to shuffle off to a corner...
American history will take the spotlight March 4 when Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, delivers the first of eight lectures on "The Federalist, Its Political History and Its Place in American Constitutional History...
Coach Kopp will start the same five as opened the season against the Coast Guard. The spotlight will be on left-forward Bob Crotty who scored 20 and 24 points respectively in his first two contests...