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...political jamboree in months-Western politicians thinking nothing of driving 500 miles or more to talk politics with one of the leaders of their party. Moreover, Elson and Booth found, they were as interested in interviewing the correspondents as the correspondents were in interviewing them. At a luncheon in Tacoma, Washington, Elson was approached by a delegation of local radiomen, on hand to welcome him. They were under the misapprehension that he was another Bob Elson (no relation), national network sportscaster. When they discovered that Elson not only was the wrong man but also had no inside dope...
...came out for abolition of the veto in the Security Council, provided a satisfactory definition of aggression were written into the charter. In odd moments, despite his full and exacting schedule, he found time to prepare his speech on foreign policy for this week's appearance at Tacoma, Wash...
Publicity-shy and restrained since the kidnaping of his son George in 1935 (TIME, June 3, 1935 et seq.), Phil opens up only in the privacy of his Tacoma home, where he enjoys martinis and practical jokes. In the basement he has a complete woodworking shop where he makes and repairs furniture. Not all his carpentering is successful. One winter Phil built a 15-foot sailboat with his two sons, George and John Philip III (Flip), now students of forestry at Yale. (There are also two daughters.) When launched, the boat promptly sank; it was badly caulked...
...jovial Republican Joe McCarthy, ex-Marine aviation intelligence officer, is 36. At 38, smart Air Forces Veteran William Jenner is the fair-haired boy of the Indiana G.O.P. machine. Washington's 40-year-old Republican Harry Cain, a whirlwind campaigner, had twice been elected mayor of Tacoma before going overseas as a major in the A.M.G...
Thomas E. Dewey ran into an embarrassing shortage problem last week. A year ago, the sympathetic Tacoma (Wash.) Athletic Commission found the Governor a hard-to-get toilet seat for the Executive Mansion, sent it to him posthaste. But now the commissioners, building new quarters, were confronted with an identical shortage. Red-faced but resolute, they sent for their toilet seat...