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Charles Pasche was born with no right arm and only a useless stump where his left arm should have been. Like many such "congenital amputees" (cause unknown), he learned to do an amazing variety of everyday tasks with his toes. It seemed impossible that he could ever become expert at what he most wanted to do-paint. But when Pasche was in his 20s, an Italian artist visiting his home in Geneva patiently taught him to hold a brush between his agile first and second toes, gave him aid in painting techniques...
...taken firm stands on improving labor laws and has made sharp and well founded criticism of the "team" as well as its leadership, or lack of same. Javits, on the other hand, has taken the stump in upstate New York defending Dulles, although in New York City he urged a more helpful policy toward Israel...
Conclusion: The fight is bitter. President Eisenhower will almost undoubtedly stump the state for McKay. Even with the President's intervention, however the race is still a throw-up. Harvard Times-Republican, September...
Nobody has ever been able to demonstrate to the Republican leaders that Nixon would be a "handicap." In fact, he disproves it on the stump and captivates big audiences. And nobody has yet been able to find a single sentence which Nixon ever uttered saying that the Democrats were "a party of treason...
Died. Bernard William Cardinal Griffin, 57, Archbishop of Westminster and leader of Great Britain's Roman Catholics, canon lawyer, active supporter and occasional stump-speaker for Labor, who served as an air-raid warden during the Battle of Britain, became the youngest cardinal on his election in 1946; of a heart attack; in New Polzeath. England...