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...Unrecognized Watcher. Togliatti, who likes to cap an Assembly debate with an obscure quotation from anything including the Bible and Pinocchio, that night debated happily such revolutionary questions as the use of the gerund as a participle, the correct version of lines from a 16th Century Italian poet, the corruption of the Italian language by certain "francesismi" (Gallicisms). Behind his steel-rimmed glasses his brown eyes sparkled merrily as he told how he had watched 30,000 Communist-led partisans give the Eternal City a mighty show of force...
...assistant in the Democratic campaign of 1944, he raised enough money to win quick approval for the job of party money-watcher. The U.S. Maritime Commission, which controls 94% of the President Lines' voting stock, thinks that such experience will prove valuable in the management of the $9,200,000 working capital which the company has piled up during its busy postwar operations...
Busy Trade, Easy Mark. Bachelor Mark became known as "Easy Mark," a soft touch for a loan. Trade also handed out plenty-for hospitals, churches, parks, etc., blithely putting Mark down for half of each donation but always getting just his name on the cornerstones. Trade was the penny-watcher. Except for his habit of taking the waitresses from their plant restaurant for a daily ride in his surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...
...soon as the polls were opened it appeared that the arrangement might strike a snag. Poll watchers from the upstart G.I. Nonpartisan Ticket were embarrassingly overzealous. Sheriff Mansfield's deputies felt compelled to bundle one young watcher off to jail. When a Negro farmer turned up to vote in Precinct 11, an annoyed deputy shot him in the back. At the cramped polling place in the rear of the Dixie Cafe, khaki-shirted veterans could not seem to crowd their way up to the ballot...