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Faintly but distinctly, the mesmeric boomlay-boom of publicity drums on Manhattan's Madison Ave. is heard 980 miles away in Columbia (pop. 43,000), site of the University of Missouri. Stout-souled citizens wonder what is wrong. Chamber of Commerce members writhe to the beat and get the message. It is so nonsensical that at first it seems to be garbled: name the new boulevard (boom-lay boom) after Milton Caniff...
...Stout Credentials. "I am delighted with the prospect that a real contribution to the rule of law among nations can be forthcoming from [the new Duke] center," the President wrote. "To depose the rule of force, and to enthrone the rule of law in the disposition of international differences is imperative . . . I am glad that you will be serving as a special consultant to me even as you press the effort to bring nearer the day when the rule of law is as normal among nations as it now is among individuals. There are doubtless many ways in which governmental...
...Dixie Senators in this 1956 blast against civil rights made him a "traitor to the South," charged Cooper, who swore that his first official act would be to sign it.* Cheered by Orval Faubus' landslide just across the Mississippi, Cooper's rednecks promised to prove that only stout segregationists can now win primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with 60% of the total, and swamped Cooper-watermelons, manifestoes and all-under a bigger vote than he dredged...
...Propagandist. Crisp, competent Yvette, now a stout matron of 36, gave a fine display of peasant shrewdness. She wrote a personal appeal to President Eisenhower,, got daughter Dorothy to write to a French radio program, Vous Etes Formidables ("You Are Terrific"), asking that her father's predicament be broadcast. More than 100,000 letters poured into the U.S. embassy in Paris begging that Wayne be pardoned...
...doctor's job was keeping the children healthy with balanced diets and three checkups a week. The father was their stout shield against excessive publicity. He tried to hide the quints' birth by registering them separately, and when the secret got out, he turned away reporters with short answers: "They are just children. Go find yourself a road show...