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...called, could not go on much longer. So long as sacrifices were not being demanded of everybody, the Administration was finding it hard to demand them of anybody. Top men in industry and the professions had been turning down Government posts; no automaker wanted to abandon his market or toe a price line if no one else had to. And so it went...
...after five sponsorless months, dropped A Woman to Remember. In a one-month sustaining run, NBC was unable to sell These Are My Children. But this week, with Procter & Gamble's The First Hundred Years (weekdays 2:30 p.m., CBS-TV), commercial daytime soap opera put a determined toe in the television door...
Last week, as a result of Impy's unsporting conduct, the mayoralty campaign had become the noisiest, eye-gougingest free-for-all the city had witnessed for decades. (Said Columnist Walter Winchell: "The only dirty show in New York today is the election campaign.") Impy and Pecora stood toe to toe exchanging invective while Corsi-at whom each took occasional condescending swipes-belabored them both wildly from the rear...
...symbolized by an elephant and some trumpets. "Spring is quiet," he says, as if to make everything clear. Summer is, of course, hotter; Gugel captured it in a high-heeled shoe of a curious sort. The heel of the shoe was formed by a half-naked girl, and the toe by a half-draped man on his knees before her. For fall, Gugel painted an "invisible" deer-outlined by flying spears topped off with a pair of antlers. Winter was a little man made of bark and a shoe made of snow...
...college is able to toe the line between red and black mainly because the Jesuits, the principal teaching order of the priesthood, are allowed to accept...