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Taft turned out to be a liberal, and a dogged, gutsy campaigner to boot. He saw "human relations" as the city's number one problem and poured out a spate of specific ideas while Stokes tended to generalize. "We don't need more plans in this city," Stokes declared at one point. "What we need is action." Actually, he was already on record with his own specifics. To an all-white meeting of policemen, Stokes declared his intention of firing Police Chief Richard Wagner as his first order of business. To a Negro club he promised...
PHILADELPHIA, November 4--Penn's talented soccer team gave Harvard a well-aimed kick in the pants here this morning, but insead of revitalizing the sluggish Crimson the boot knocked Harvard out of serious title contention., 3-0. The Quakers opened a 2-0 lead in the first period, and the Crimson never came up with that extra effort needed to get back into the game...
...Wife Alice (Geraldine McEwan) is a viper-vampire, bleeding her husband of self-respect. She refuses to let him forget that he never rose to the rank of major, that his only accomplishment is an obsolete manual on small arms. Edgar bullies Alice right back, and stamps his army boot on her vanity by noting that the laurel wreaths she cherishes from her days as an actress were given to her, not by an adoring public, but by her own brother...
Bonwit Teller. "I'll tell you how they feel," said one Washington boot buyer. "They feel hot." Yet, so much have boots become this year's look that they are sweeping even balmy Southern California. "I didn't think women would take to them because of the climate here," said I. Magnin Vice President Russell Carpenter, "but we can hardly keep them in stock." And when Gloria Swanson stalked onstage in Los Angeles recently in a tattersall minisuit and shiny black hip boots, the whole audience instantly erupted with shouts of "Brava...
...synthesis. Yael may find Ayeleth too confining, but she works without complaining, and what she does, she does well--often better than kibbutzniks. Nor does she resent Army service. She welcomes it as an educational experience and a patriotic necessity including the two months of boot-camp--pure military training--with which women begin their military duty...