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Neither Morley nor Fay knew what famous British agitator (John Wilkes) was half of an American city (WilkesBarre) and two-thirds of an American murderer (John Wilkes Booth). But the U.S. team correctly identified "The Tate" (London art gallery), "The Reform" (political club), and "Bart's" (St. Bartholomew's Hospital...
Painter Rattner's prizewinner was Kiosk, a near-abstraction in greens, yellows and a touch of purple. A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it." Sniffed the New York Times's assured Edward Alden Jewell: "unqualifiedly the poorest thing by Abraham Rattner that I have ever seen...
...called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...
...Writer George S. Mitchell, Southern director of the C.I.O.-P.A.C., told how a white woman in a small Virginia town encouraged "white supremacy" and discouraged Negro would-be voters from registering by making the registration booth the parlor of her home in an all-white district while a husky husband and a large dog looked...
...news. He had spent a middling busy day. In the morning, he and his pleasant-faced wife drove from Kansas City to Independence (pop: 16,066) to vote. Then the Trumans drove to nearby Grandview, shepherded the Senator's 91-year-old mother to the polling booth. In the evening, he gathered with old friends in his hotel suite, joked: "Everybody around here is nervous...