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Ballad singer Susan Reed smiled prettily yesterday over her slither-like "ever" lovin," pointed through a glass window to the cluster of WHHV official standing shyly in their control booth, and complained that although Harvard men are "fine," they always "hide in the next room...
...November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth a minute later, and a more livable, if slightly less shiny, Vag emerged and place-kicked a bottlcap neatly between the uprights of two parking meters. He now had a date; only one thing remained. Cakewalking down the white line as be headed for the bank, he erased the last heretical doubt. What good...
Most of you have already read TIME'S accounts of the recent tours of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Our correspondents who accompanied them were Robert Elson, chief of Time Inc.'s Washington bureau, and Win Booth, who ordinarily covers the White House. By comparison with the usual grand tours of Presidential nominees after the Republican and Democratic conventions, these tours were in the nature of family excursions. Nevertheless, says Elson, who went along with the Taft party, "Booth and I got closer to the men, their families...
Aside from the problem of how to get your laundry done (usually solved by buying new haberdashery), Elson and Booth encountered others that will become standard when next year's campaign gets under way. One was how to keep up with the men they were covering and still find time to write good, readable daily copy for TIME'S editors. Booth got considerable practice writing his on a jouncing portable balanced on his knees in a chartered bus. Elson found that between midnight and dawn in the privacy of his Pullman bedroom was the best time...
...small towns the arrival of such national personages as Taft and Dewey was usually the signal for the biggest local political jamboree in months-Western politicians thinking nothing of driving 500 miles or more to talk politics with one of the leaders of their party. Moreover, Elson and Booth found, they were as interested in interviewing the correspondents as the correspondents were in interviewing them. At a luncheon in Tacoma, Washington, Elson was approached by a delegation of local radiomen, on hand to welcome him. They were under the misapprehension that he was another Bob Elson (no relation), national network...