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...serious fellow, who seemed only to slap backs and ride kids' bicycles because he is warm and human and not stuck up, and likes people. The Democratic professionals in Washington were horrified. Last week, no longer able to pooh-pooh Kefauver as an amateur and an upstart, they were taking serious steps to stop him at any cost...
Members of Harry Truman's staff have been inclined to sneer at Kefauver as an upstart who let TV spotlights, headlines and fan letters go to his head. Harry Truman himself has been cool toward his potential rival. Recently, however, as the Washington scandals began to hurt, a presidential staff member expressed a new attitude toward Kefauver: "Well, now, maybe Vice President...
...World War II industrial circus staged by Cleveland's upstart manufacturers Jack & Heintz Inc., U.S. business men never quite knew whether to hiss or cheer Ringmaster Bill Jack. He both be wildered and fascinated them with his free meals, free massages, free Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...
...Riviera beach, lay Harry's blonde wife Eve and a sinewy French mechanic, making love. Harry's friend squeezed his eyes shut, but his mind ticked on furiously. "How could Eve prostrate herself in that atrocious way! What lunatic filth presumed in that man's upstart mind to lay a finger on her!" Suddenly, he "felt like murder." Harry's friend might not have been so homicidally inclined if he weren't secretly in. love with Eve himself. As for poor old Harry, he was off pounding tennis balls somewhere while his wife played love...
Battlefield, last year's money-winning-est two-year-old, had already been declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...