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...dictated answers to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. After that, his two aides, Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, briefed him on the morning news and the day's dilemmas. Confronted by a problem, Ike would think it over for a moment, his forefinger and thumb playing with the cap on his front tooth. Then he would spring from his chair, pace the floor and announce his decision in a quick sentence...
Fire Fighters. Among the educational toys are light-up maps and the "Magic Speller" ($3) whose picture cards, when inserted in a slot, rack up simple words like "bird" and "bear" for a child to copy on a miniature blackboard. The Tom Thumb typewriter is a real working model ($19.95). Prospective architects can try their hand with "Blockbusters," big, cor rugated-paper blocks capable of holding more than 200 lbs. (twelve blocks for $5.95). Radio hams can assemble their own crystal sets ($2.50). One of the best bargains for budding mechanics: the plas tic "Fix-It" automobile. Its battery, radi...
...York elections are decided by which area goes its way by the biggest margin. The city's counties (called boroughs) are themselves divided (Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn are Democratic; Queens and Richmond are Republican), but the net result is almost always Democratic. The politicians' rule of thumb has been that a Democrat who goes over the wall from New York City with a 500,000-vote margin will carry the state. There are indications in 1952 that this figure is out of date and that the Democrats will have to get a city plurality...
...ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them. It's like slowly collecting a pile of chips and then plonking them all down . . . It's the most fascinating thing...
...income taxes of racketeers. Organized crime cannot exist without political protection, and it was only logical to suspect that the protection might extend to income taxes. Williams got and put into the Senate records the income-tax files of Harry Gross, Frank Costello, Phil Kastel, Ralph Capone, Greasy Thumb Guzik and others. Costello, for instance, was 20 years delinquent in taxes and had not been investigated for ten years. The Treasury protested that it couldn't collect from Costello because he didn't seem to have any property. Williams helpfully furnished the address of a Costello property...