Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brought before the Circus Saints and Sinners as their 100th "fall guy," Socialist Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas took it from 1,200 guests, but he also dished it out. Handed a "diamond-studded" soapbox and a microphone (marked WIND), Thomas cracked: "I think I know why you gave me this-I'm the only man in America who can stand on a platform. In fact, I'm the only one with one to stand on." Introduced as "the man everyone loves and nobody votes for," the veteran of six campaigns admitted that he would "settle for more votes...
Still sniping at giveaway shows in his own field, pouch-eyed Radio Comic Fred Allen found time to fire a pot shot at a neighbor: "I haven't bothered much about television ... I think the men who used to take passport pictures are now the cameramen ... it seems to be nothing but radio fluoroscoped...
...Townley waited, the stewards reviewed the claim of foul. They not only disallowed it, but fined Jockey Charlie Smirke $100 for making a "frivolous objection." After collecting his $600,000 Plunger Townley said with the air of man who means it: "Betting is a fool's game. I think I'll go in for breeding...
...critical acclaim, for Dufy's art is nothing if not charming. Today he lives in a comfortably bourgeois house surrounded by maple trees in Perpignan. "Every night," he told a recent visitor, "I go to bed tired but contented. I do as much as my strength permits; I think I'm entitled to sleep in peace...
...Rose shuns name authors ("children don't care who wrote the story"), never mixes fantasy with fact ("some authors have brownies explain about stalagmites; they think it helps the children, but it confuses them''). She is careful not to tell her readers what to think ("we tell them how to make some gadget, but we never say it's fun"). Above all, she never slants her pieces to please parents or teachers because "there are more kids [than teachers]; that's our whole policy...