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...agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard and emaciated as the result of a near fatal plane crash, can hardly fail to call up visions of successful procurers you have known...
...counters were clicking furiously. The physicists watched fascinated as the curve climbed steadily upward. Then, Wham! With a clang, the automatic control rod (which had been set for too low a neutron count) slammed back into the pile. "I'm hungry," said Fermi calmly. "Let's go to lunch." The other rods were inserted, the pile quieted down...
...Tiger Rag - number un," the Duke said, holding up one finger. "First you play around . . . just a few riffs" (the Duke made guitar-strumming motions). "Then we give you a chord - wham, you go into Tiger by yourself and we start giving you the beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word...
...appointed successor, hamhanded Senator Frank Briggs, will probably lose to neat, conservative, colorless James P. Kem, unless the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and the P.A.C. in St. Louis can roll up an overwhelming Democratic vote. Briggs's theme: loyalty to Truman. Kem's strategy: wham away at controls, left-wingers, Pendergastery...
Claudette lifts her curly lashes, takes one long look at Captain Wayne and-wham! Here's the real-life double of her own fictional hero. She yearns to tell him who she is and offer him the lead in the projected film. But the outspoken Captain has read her novel, thinks her hero is a thoroughgoing jerk...