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...hope of the Republicans is a new standard bearer a new champion to rally the forces and to bring in recruits to swell the faltering ranks. Policies and plans are poor election material and platforms usually go unread the electorate lacks at the man. A leader is needed who can command the confidence of big business, but whose social outlook embraces the problems of the common man a colorful figure a force in the public mind. He must be a man who can draw the contributions of the rich to the campaign chest, and the votes of the poor...
...management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...
...cover. Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush. Her uncle reported to her parents, and when she overheard them making light of her simple-mindedness she left the last few pages forever unread. Selma's governess broke the news to her gently that she was an unremarkable child, but Selma's hopes of some day becoming a writer were not dashed. She said to herself: "Perhaps I can become a writer if it depends only on the will and not on talent...
Jennifer, like Ishbel MacDonald, was stocky, well-scrubbed, healthy, plain. Like Ishbel, Jennifer had a Famous Father, whose daily lookout she was, with no watches shared. Father, widowered and only-daughtered, was a famed novelist whose books were appreciated by the few, unread by the many, abhorred by the clergy. Jennifer and Father lived in London as in a sheltered treadmill: she ran the house, took his dictation, typed his manuscripts, chased from the quiet street the occasional catastrophe of an organ-grinder. Suddenly one day Father brought home a pretty young wife, several years younger than Jennifer. With...
Upon every newspaper bureau in Washington, in and out of season, rains political publicity. Produced mostly by verbose, news-ignorant hacks, these handouts are sluiced into the trashbasket unread. As they never get into print, they represent a major waste in political party management...