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...imagination, leaping forward, has already devised the strategy by which Arkansas, MacArthur's native state, will yield to Wisconsin, which the General still claims as home, when the nominating roll call begins. "Can't you visualize the war whoop," he cries, "when Arkansas, third state on the roll call, rises to yield to Wisconsin!" Representative Fish, who shares with the McCormick-Patterson family his enthusiasm for MacArthur as an anti-New Deal candidate, has introduced a bill to repeal the Army ban on the political candidacies of men in active service...
...launch the "Quint Fleet" of five freighters at Superior, Wis., the Dionne Quintuplets made their first trip to the U.S. Crowds jammed the station platforms along the way, some 15,000 turned up at the shipyard. There, during three and a half hours of oratorical and musical whoop-te-do, the five eight-year-olds sat on a lofty platform, at 45-minute intervals marched to a ship and smashed a pint of Niagara River water on a bow. Lefthanded Emilie, whose possible performance had caused a little worry, did beautifully with a masterly righthanded smack. Biggest applause...
...theatrical stock companies. She made her first hits in Broadway's Icebound and The Cradle Snatchers, attracted greater attention in Show Boat. In Hollywood she was a deft scene-stealer, won a reputation as a character actress. She lived alone, rarely took part in Hollywood's whoop...
...with more and faster production. In a two-month series of confabs, the two men pounded the original idea into the "Work to Win" program. Chief program points: 1) a speedup of machines rather than men; 2) individual recognition for work well done; 3) whoop...
Saturdays Private Gene Johnson of the Mountaineers put on a "whoop-de-do" that jammed the noisy little station to the doors. Mountaineers generally ran to hoedowns, Regulars to sentimental cowboy tunes, Alabamans did takeoffs on hairtonic commercials, Gophers stuck to band music. In March Funnyman Joe Brown blew into camp, gave two and three shows...