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Nixon's earnest, unsung diligence has won him a lot of respect, even among people who not long ago were damning or disparaging him. Last week the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, once ferociously anti-Nixon though pro-Ike, editorially conceded it might have been wrong in thinking that the country would get "awfullv tired" of the "mawkish" and "disagreeably pushing" Vice President: "Some better stuff in Nixon than we recognized took command . . . With iron discipline, he seems to have dedicated himself to quiet, patient and unseen aid and comfort to his chief and his party . . . Perhaps...
...seeded Seton Hall's fabulous Walter Dukes, the skyscraper (6 ft. 11 in.) Negro center who paced his team to a major-college record of 27 straight victories. Arrayed against Dukes & Co. was the sentimental underdog, St. John's of Brooklyn, unseeded but not unsung after scoring three straight upsets over St. Louis, La Salle and Duquesne to reach the final round...
...biggest U.S. cities had so distinguished a beginning as Perryopolis, Pa. (pop. 1,500), an unsung & forgotten hamlet in the coal fields 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. George Washington himself bought land on the town's present site back in 1770, and built a grist mill near by. According to local legend, he also suggested the circular-street plan upon which the village is built, although he sold out (1,643 acres for $4,000) long before 1814, when Perryopolis, named for Naval Hero Oliver Hazard Perry, was actually begun...
...Other Winchells. The busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell...
...skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action." In the fighting lull, the unsung men of Graves Registration were busy trying to bridge the gap between the 11,000 U.S. troops listed as missing, and the mere 3,000 names of persons on the lists handed over by the Reds...