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Robert A. Toft, Republican from Ohio, 60, his party's policy leader and the Senate's finest legal mind. He is often the catalyst of Senate thinking. His abrasive mind can find the soft spots in an argument or a plan as surely as a dentist's drill. Ragging in debate, blunt to the point of rudeness, honest to the point of indiscretion, he holds his leadership by sheer intellectual prestige. He is a powerful check on any ill-advised experiment; in fact, his more liberal colleagues would be the first to admit that, while fighting them...
Twenties for Toft. A plain, unexcitable, grey-eyed blonde, Bazy parts her bobbed hair in the middle, does not worry herself too much about what the well-dressed woman should wear, expresses her urge for personal ornamentation by wearing spangle-studded glasses and chunks of costume jewelry. She got her elementary lessons in journalism as an 18-year-old reporter on her mother's Rockford (Ill.) morning Star, covering everything from farm news to a "dance-athon," and writing two columns. In 1941, Bazy married Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., now 30, a socialite defense-plant worker, University of Chicago...
...Toft & Harold Stassen turned up again on the same platform, this time in Columbus, Ohio. Again they exchanged expressions of esteem. Cracked a newsman: "They're not such strange bedfellows-they both have nightmares about Dewey...