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Said Mr. Roosevelt: "Hi there, Bill! Are you going to run against me for President this year?" There was a breathless pause, then a titter of laughter. Mr. Roosevelt's face turned red. Then he added swiftly: " -that is, if I am a candidate." Replied Congressman Lemke, smiling: "Maybe it would be better if we both didn't run." Newspaper speculation, spurred by the Lemke incident, began to assume more & more that Mr. Roosevelt will broadcast his July acceptance of the Democratic nomination in the most glamorous manner possible - that he will take full politi cal advantage...
...American Woman's Jury (Mutual, Mon.-Fri., 1:45 p.m., E.W.T.) has been on the air for six weeks. They have been breathless weeks-even by U.S. radio standards. Fortnight after the show opened as a sustainer, it drew a fat sponsor (Lewis-Howe Co., makers of Nature's Remedy and Turns...
...ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor for it was insistent. Then for three-quarters of an hour Hitch held a dozen grown men breathless, waiting for the double-entendre, while he told the story of Cinderella -straight...
...Britain, U.S. Marines brought seven days of breathless climbing and vicious fighting to an end by capturing Hill 660. A minor battle by global standards, it was also one of the bloodiest yet fought by the Marines in the Southwest Pacific. The dividend: early use of the Cape Gloucester airfield, whence bombers could strike at Rabaul...
From the Mayo Clinic came a breathless story of a hunt for three lost tubes of almost priceless radium...