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Once upon a time there was a little boy whose parents were very poor. They lived in The Bronx, in a drab backwash of a great city...
Miss America (The Bronx's Bess Meyerson, 21) got a gallery-eye view-of the U.S. Senate, which also got a look at her and applauded her bond-selling achievements'. Tennessee's sulphurous old Senator Kenneth McKellar, 76, got something extra before she left: a patriotic buss...
With this for a starter, The Hat tore into the Governor and all local tickets (except his own, headed by No Deal Party man Newbold Morris), hurled the name "politician" as though it were a vile epithet. He raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...
...public before every quinquennial election, has its Senate of professors and university officials second the nominations, sends the names to some 100 distinguished citizens (geographically scattered), who then do the electing. If somebody puts up the money, each winner gets a bronze bust in a colonnade in The Bronx...
...among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe?'' (Ans.: 10½-you always subtract 3 2 from the French measure to get the American size.) . . . "What is a kangaroo's pouch lined with?" (When we checked the Bronx Zoo on that one we got our ears pinned back with "Skin, of course. What d'ya expect, nylon...