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EUGENE B. VEST...
...thanks to Readers Vest, Jones, Monroe and Macleod for footnotes to the great career of a great scholar, now drawing to a close...
...last week hardly stirred Emil Hurja at all. He calculates political pressure, not by the daily surge of press headlines, but by a dispassionate dipping into public sentiment far from the source of the immediate excitement. When Mr. Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...
...Attorney General on the stand, got him to admit that he had given advice in some of the tax cases the Inquirer had originally mentioned. When the Attorney General persisted in elaborate asides to the jury, Lawyer Evans infuriated him by leaning back, hooking his thumbs in his vest and observing: "I have the bulge on you, Mr. Margiotti. I can talk to the jury after your mouth is closed...
...metamorphosed everyday trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests put their oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...