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...suavely conventional Mr. Stevenson will have little trouble from the transparently opportunistic Mr. Lausche. The Democrats will be much better off running a paper doll that they can call their own than a Cellophane pol whose flirty-flirty eyes wink faithlessly at gods, men and political orthodoxy...
...conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some, like Harold Greer of the Toronto Star, ran four long blocks to the National Press Building to file their stories...
...vote of 79-1 (North Dakota's maverick Republican Bill Langer) and authorized $350,000 for the job. Said Johnson: "I believe that the members selected for the committee will do their jobs in their own way, according to their best judgment, and"-adding a broad verbal wink-"I am hopeful that the job they do will meet with the approval of all fairminded, patriotic, non-political Senators...
...once said: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing." He also loved his life, which he summed up in a famous epitaph for himself: "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thoughts to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl...
...December 2, 1952, it proposed that the Saturday curfew be raised to 11 p.m., and that afternoon hours on every week day start at 4 instead of 1 p.m. Officially, the Masters had no idea how the afternoon change had come about, but privately, they could be seen to wink at each other...