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From Irving Ives, after his wife's skirt was spattered by a ripe tomato in Watertown, came some of the harshest language yet heard in a harsh U.S. political season. Cried Ives: "I've been under worse fire than that. I can't be more eloquent in what I have to say about this opposition than what has just been done here on this platform. It was aimed at me, and it's all right, because it came by indirection from Tammany Hall, the outfit that's running this campaign on the Democratic side...
...often a little naive. In January 1952 he skipped across the border to visit relatives in West Germany incognito, was discovered and sent back. Another time, at the height of East zone food shortages, he made a propaganda visit to Bonn and was hit by an overripe tomato square on his chest. Such adventures embarrassed his government. His pretty wife saw the signs, urged him to flee before it was too late. "I have a clear conscience," he told her. "I will stay. There is still justice here." A few weeks later, in the winter of 1952, Minister Hamann...
...jazzy singing commercial sung by a voice that sounds like a temporary compromise between the voices of Judy Garland and Bonnie (Oh, Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh!) Baker. "I love to cook and cook and cook," she burbles, and proceeds to cite the virtues of Hunt's tomato sauce. One day last spring Columbia Records' sharp-eared Mitch Miller heard the voice on his car radio. The light dawned. "There's a voice." he said to himself, "that sounds like a sexy 16-year...
Snead is careful with his money, but he doesn't keep it in tomato cans buried in his garden, as Jimmy Demaret alleges...
...person who happened to drop in for tea on that Sunday afternoon, he would appear just another man sitting at home entertaining his friends. If the visitor had stopped by a few hours earlier he might have seen him mowing the lawn, or watering his tomato plants, while his wife-his campus sweetheart-tended the flowers. Chances are that if the same person stops at the same place a few years hence he will find the same scene, for Arthur Schlesinger, with his teaching career ended, still has some books to write and some very important things to say. HERBERT...