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Missouri. A Republican swell is running -for many Missourians are not proud of their native son in the White House. Harry Truman's appointed successor, hamhanded Senator Frank Briggs, will probably lose to neat, conservative, colorless James P. Kem, unless the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and the P.A.C. in St. Louis can roll up an overwhelming Democratic vote. Briggs's theme: loyalty to Truman. Kem's strategy: wham away at controls, left-wingers, Pendergastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Senate Sweepstakes | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...Ultra Violet campaign is the costliest that Revlon has ever launched, may swell the company's 1946 advertising bil to over $3 million. What Revlon expects in return, like all other figures in the industry, is a closely guarded secret. But largely on the sale of dollar lipsticks and 60? nail polishes which cost the makers about 10? to manufacture, Revlon this year will gross "well into the eight-figure bracket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Such a Color! | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Today's expected total of 2,600 returning undergraduates will swell College enrollment figures to over 5,200, Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 announced last night as he anxiously reviewed plans for accommodating the largest group of students in Harvard history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollment Reaches All-Time High; 2,600 Report for Registration Today | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...note, under National Affairs [TIME, Aug. 12], that our recent Congress has allocated $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees. Swell, I certainly am in accord with the idea. What I would like to know is, isn't that a rather excessive amount? Figuring $1,600 to a car, it would mean . . . that there are 18,750 amputees to receive cars. Are there that many amputees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1946 | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Passing its $10,000 goal Wednesday night, the food drive yesterday reached $11,051.00 as checks in the mail and returns from the Widener Library desk continued to swell the totals, Chairman Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Relief Drive Goes Over Top As Donations Push Total to $11,051 | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

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