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...Price Boss Chester Bowles, who has little political experience but great ambition, seemed a cinch to be the Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut. But last week he was outfoxed by the pros. In a wide-open state convention, after the pros had maneuvered a first-ballot deadlock, they threw all their strength to Lieut. Governor Wilbert Snow, 62-year-old poet and former Wesleyan University professor of English. Rushing to make the nomination unanimous, Chester said: "I've always said I'd never sulk in my tent...
...winter. Torn by feuds and prides that cut as deep as cleavages among the leftists, conservatives could unite on no single man. Chileans had been about ready to swing to the right, but many now hoped for a middle way. With four candidates in the field, it was a wide-open race after...
...delegates were not hesitant about making their views known. In the tempestuous uproar of policy-drafting committees, political ideologies and regional prejudices clashed in wide-open, no-holds-barred debate. Cried one exasperated woman to her husband: "Oh, why don't you just join the American Legion...
...Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle his Europas; sometimes he passed them to pay hotel bills...
...only casualty in this involved process was Lockett, who had to interview Giannini on the wide-open sun deck of his hotel and on the unsheltered Florida beaches. "Oh," said Giannini, "you'll tan." Lockett knew better. As usual, he just burned and peeled...