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...school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says he: "Public speaking meant something in those days. Those men had to speak without microphones to huge crowds...
...before a Cabinet meeting, ex-President Hoover slipped into the White House for a visit with Ike. When the Cabinet (including Dulles) met, it approved the Under Secretary's candidate: Cincinnati's John B. Hollister, 64, longtime law and golfing partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft...
...aides muttered that they would quit rather than work under Hollister. The Washington Post expressed "misgivings" based on 1) reports that a Hoover Commission task force will propose to atomize the foreign-aid setup, scattering the fragments among various departments, and 2) Hollister's record as a Taft Republican (a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Hollister fought the New Deal and voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade...
...White House was at pains to explain that, with Taftman Hollister in charge, the program had a better chance of overcoming growing congressional resistance to foreign spending. The Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star glowed with pride, certain that to Hollister, "thrift is more than a word." But newsmen had trouble getting an answer to their key question: Is Hollister for or against foreign...
...Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...