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Last week all that was suddenly changed. Hot on his showing in the Wisconsin primary, where he ran second to New York's Governor Dewey and picked up three delegates, General MacArthur swamped a political unknown in Illinois's preferential primary. Illinois's 59 delegates will not be pledged to him; but the 500,000 votes he piled up were an impressive indication of strength...
...choice of the Democratic bosses, would lose the Democratic nomination. Yet last week when the primary votes were counted, Pat Heaton was 344 votes behind George W. Olsen, a baggy-clothed 62-year-old cafeteria bus boy at Omaha's Martin bomber plant, and an absolute political unknown. Sole reason for George Olsen's triumph: his Scandinavian name...
...third had a knife and some coins in his pocket but there was no name. If he ever had an identification tag around his neck, it would have been gone. He had no head or neck. He was and would continue to be an unknown-a nobody-at-all. We put them, one on the other, in the bottom of the boat, covered them with a canvas and started back. It was a long ride back...
...unknown artist drew a picture of a soldier in battle array and crusading posture with one arm flung up-his fingers had grown branches, his feet had taken root like a tree...
Until the Book-of-the-Month Club chose Blessed Are the Meek, Mme. Kossak was unknown in the U.S., though famed in Poland for her historical novels. Now that her husband, a colonel in the Polish Army, is in a German concentration camp, her whereabouts is hidden from the world, but her publishers, refugees in Manhattan, have republished in English her latest novel. Translator is Rulka Langer, Polish author of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (TIME...