Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Empty Cars & High Spirits. Next morning, as the presidential train clicked homeward, the President was up at 5 to confer with Chicago politicos-Boss Jake Arvey, ex-Mayor Ed Kelly, Senator Paul Douglas. Later, at Willard, Ohio, a T-shirted boy in the crowd shouted: "What do you think of Senator Taft?" Truman declined the bait. "I like him very much," said Harry Truman pleasantly...
Later, in the well-packed auditorium, Harry Truman began in his best cracker-barrel manner. The last time he had been in St. Paul (a month before election) "was quite a time," said Truman. "Didn't anybody think I'd be back here addressing you within one year from that Election Day as President of the United States. But here...
...think the score will be . . ." HARVARD 26 BROWN...
...called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey a delicate mood, I think, by means of a "Toy Lady" and the change of seasons...
...Europe, handling advertising for a Baltimore chemical firm. After his return, he was playing tennis one day with a Harvard friend when the head of the Lawn Tennis Club asked him if he thought he could make some improvements on the deteriorated courts. Enright said he didn't think he could. But he undertook the job and shortly after, in 1887, the captain of the football team, an end named Cumnock, requested Enright's elevation to the post of grounds superintendent. Enright still can't figure out what they had against the man he succeeded...