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Through the 27 days of campaigning for the run-off primary for Texas' governorship, hard-pitching, New Dealing Dr. Homer Price Rainey strove mightily to overcome the 152,000-vote handicap that was indicated by last month's indecisive Democratic primary. Said onetime baseballer Rainey: It won't be over till the last man's out in the ninth...
PreWi President A. Warren Norton, onetime Christian Science Monitor manager, put headphones on his executives and set them to manning the radio circuits, but PreWi was badly crippled. Expensive transocean telephone traffic soared as clients strove to keep the news coming from their correspondents overseas. Somehow a lot of news got through. At week's end, A.C.A. called off its embargo, agreed to return to work while the issue was arbitrated...
Giorgio Vasari, like so many other Renaissance Italians, strove mightily to make a name as a great painter. He failed. But history has remembered him for an enduring hobby: gathering snippets of fact & fiction, bright sayings, and queer habits of his fellow painters...
...subject of which was man's back-sliding into his mechanical way of life. With a blackboard background portraying the evolution of man's brain, the speech, which ended, "mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction," was repeated for an hour while the six man March of Time crew strove for the proper effect...
...England & I." "I loathed and hated the Germans, forbade Nazi meetings and strove to rouse and train our youth for the fight I knew must come. . . . When war came and our front broke, I was left with a broken-spirited people and with a legacy of rottenness of two decades. I went into the forest and told the people to hide their weapons. ... At that time only England and I were still...