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...Press Secretary James Hagerty's news conference, reporters found a complete stranger sitting front and center. With a Little Jack Horner smile, Hagerty introduced his guest as Vernon Bradley, a real-estate man from Springfield, Mass. Bradley had come to Washington to see Dwight Eisenhower and to announce that he would run for Congress in Massachusetts' Second District. Added Hagerty: "The President wished him well...
...TIME meant that the Senator was durable, useful, sharp-eyed, discerning, but not universally loved, and no stranger to Arkansas...
...small airstrip near Colorado Springs, a tall, slim stranger recently asked if any of the parked planes were for rent. "All these planes are for rent, mister," said the airport operator. "But you can't fly'em without a license. Let's see your credentials." Obligingly, the stranger took out his wallet and showed his pilot's license. His name: Charles...
From sun-beaten ports in the Gulf Coast a monstrous, ungainly fleet is putting out to sea on a dramatic mission. It is the "navy" of the offshore oilmen, and never did stranger ships sail on more venturesome voyages. Some of the craft bristle with giant cranes; others grow forests of steel columns as tall as Douglas firs. All of them clank and roar with violent machinery. Alongside conventional ships built for more seemly duty, they look as clumsy as cassowaries splashing in a lake of swans...
...Over here, the Dancer's reputation had preceded him, and he was no stranger . . . There is an old saying here that "Everyone is equal both on and under the turf" (meaning that everyone is equal at the races