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...judge had a ticklish task. Which one of the six dogs would he choose? English setter, wire-haired dachshund, Welsh terrier, Brussels griffon, standard poodle or Doberman pinscher? Each dog had been trained to the tail tip, each had survived a two-day ordeal of poking and prodding by judges. Each was the best of its breed and the best of its group. Now, from all the 2,451 dogs originally entered last week in the 76th annual Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden, the judge had to choose one as the best...
...Right now, we're busy lining up delegates for the state primary on April 29th--two delegates in each district. Massachusetts is one of the three states in the country where the voters can clearly show their choice for the nomination. Of course, with our man it's a ticklish business." He explained that delegates could not appear on the primary ballot directly pledged to Eisenhower, since this would require the written consent of the candidate which Ike, as an Army officer, cannot give...
...with it. She has also crossed the color line, bearing a full quota of sympathy for Clara. Author Coleman has told his story with a simplicity that only occasionally slips into naiveté. Clara is no major work of fiction, but it is an honest book on a ticklish subject, and it has the virtue of being about ordinary people, well understood...
...other as finished traitors, ready to be driven away to Siberia. They sat him on a plain stool while relays of examiners interrogated him day & night until his head was splitting and his splayed buttocks a mass of burning pulp. After a week of this, Weissberg "confessed"-a ticklish job, because his "crimes" had to dovetail exactly both into the "confessions" of his "accomplices" (i.e., his arrested friends who had incriminated him) and the overall plot requirements laid down by G.P.U. planners...
...delegates by primary April 1. Taft Manager David Ingalls made his biggest breakthrough in August when he signed up Thomas E. Coleman of Madison, state G.O.P. leader. Taft himself will make a courthouse-steps campaign in Wisconsin, flanked by Wisconsin's own Senator Joe McCarthy. Wisconsin is as ticklish a problem for Ike as Oregon is for Taft. Reports TIME'S correspondent in Madison: "Some Republicans say Eisenhower would be foolish to make a late entry and risk a bad showing, but a dramatic late entry by Eisenhower might counteract all the work done up to that time...