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...Louis, Dewey gave his strategy a trial whirl. After a brief conference, Missouri's National Committeeman Barak T. Mattingly unhesitatingly announced that Tom Dewey would be nominated on the first ballot. He said that Dewey was already assured of 420 of the approximately 547 votes he needed to win, that Missouri was overwhelmingly eager to follow the Dewey standard. For the rest of his "vacation," Tom Dewey would do his best to make that spirit contagious...
...Down Brands. Thanks to his father's brewing interests, Taylor was raised in the sight & sound of industry. Fresh from McGill University, he had a whirl at running his own bus service, then spent seven years with an Ottawa firm learning the investment business. Named a director of his father's Brading Breweries in Ottawa, he picked up other Ontario breweries, formed the Brewing Corp. of Canada. As president and general manager, he whittled 90 brands down to nine, and formed the Brewing Corp. of America to sell his beer...
Graft and patronage have been a part of Boston since before the time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
...gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet. But her well-padded, 5 ft.-7 in. frame was a bit bulky for ballet, and realizing, as she now says, that "this [indicating her face] was the only thing I had to work with," she began hunting jobs on the stage...