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...Tread & Wine. In Seattle, pressed into emergency service to play the role of the Apostle Simon in a performance of the Passion Play, Automobile Dealer Joseph Gandy took advantage of a lull during the Last Supper to sell a Ford to the man playing James...
...When Dillon replaced Kearns as the Administration spokesman, the stalled bill glided through the committee with ease. But Kearns has an influential friend on Ways & Means: Louisiana's Hale Boggs, chairman of the foreign-trade subcommittee. "He's not afraid to barge in where angels fear to tread," Boggs admiringly says of Kearns. At week's end Hale Boggs took off for Europe for a ten-day look at Western European trade policies, and with him went Henry Kearns...
...Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner. In 1952 he broke his neck in a race at Monza, Italy. But Fangio developed the delicate sense of touch that enabled him to tread the fine line between the speed that wins and the speed that kills...
Stebbins said that "presently there is no middle ground between our two camps and the lighter we tread, the better." He expressed hope that the Band might be able to appear there "in better days...
When the Harvardman leaves Harvard in the spring he frequently wonders what it is that takes over during the summer months. He who stays behind to see finds out that the buildings can withstand the tread of Fire Red toes. Harvard as a whole, assuming for the summer an altruistic little Burden for itself, feels she has done a good deed for American higher education...