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...next junior Senator from Pennsylvania will be only 38 when he takes the oath. He is attractive in a wholesome way; his wife and three children look swell on campaign brochures. His bloodlines are important enough for him to rate a dynastic III after his name. With experience in the House and a reputation for being bright and ambitious, he will have an edge over other freshmen Senators in competing for Capitol Hill influence and national attention...
...Happened One Night. Frank Capra hits his crest. This legend, a tremendously successful commercial venture ruined undershirts and all that, but it is funny and still fresh too. Gable became an important star with this, mostly by taking off his shirt and having another on underneath and that was swell for the dames of America, but we all wish that it was Claudette Colbert who sent the underwear business into Depression with the rest of the country...
...some of the councilors ("I've supported the cabbies for 30 years"), it was Grandfather Al beaming down from the dais. When the drivers were testifying, Deadpan Al nodded gravely at their protests, seemingly recording it all into his store of wisdom. But when catcalls and boos started to swell in the gallery, Ferocious Al glanced, disgusted, toward the City Clerk and said, sotto voce, "They sure can turn on you." He might have said, "I sure can turn on them...
...says Franklin Simon, president of Filene's department store in Boston. Some more numbers out of Washington support that view: the Commerce Department announced last week that the aggregate personal income of Americans rose 1% in July, largely because wages had grown more than expected. And when paychecks swell, those lines at the check-out counter are quick to grow...
...Power Commission decided to put that perennial hypothesis to the test. By a 3-to-1 vote, the commissioners sharply jacked up the price of much of the natural gas that is now piped across state lines. If the decision holds up in court, the tab for consumers will swell by $1.5 billion over the next year alone...