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What worried the Republicans was the timing, if it happened that way. If the White House gauged the public mood aright, a dramatic, firm-hand-on-the-tiller mobilization call on election eve might seriously damage G.O.P. election chances...
...signal gun for the first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat...
...picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...
Dewey's speeches were not electrifying. "As never before," the candidate solemnly declared, "we need a rudder to our ship of state and we need a firm hand at the tiller." When he referred to his opponent he spoke more in sorrow than in anger, never mentioning his name. "We know the kind of government we have now. It's tired. It's confused. It scolds and complains . . . It's coming apart at the seams...
Last week, in the musty old Observer office, there was hardly a ripple when a bright young man took over as editor. He was forthright David Astor, 36, whose grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor Brown, who returned to his favorite pursuits of drama critic and essayist. In Brown's six-year term, the Observer had gone nonpartisan, and become a better all-round paper (except to Tories) than Lord Kemsley's rival Sunday Times...