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...bossdom, just two Democrats had tiptoed into the Statehouse. Since the 1938 debacle of George Earle* and his dazed administration, a succession of Old Guard Republicans had moved, like a procession of pelicans, into the governor's chair, led by Arthur James, whose conservatism extended to his high-button shoes. In 1946 it came the turn of James Duff, a bristle-thatched bird of another feather. Midway in his term, Duff led a coup d'état against Boss Joe Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. In 1950, what was left of Pennsylvania's Republican power...
...undergraduates came from similar backgrounds and did similar things. But today they have become official headaches. Building a house system as a solution would be a $10,000,000 project which Dean of Students William Lippincott calls a bout as realistic as pressing a $10,000,000 button on a slot machine...
...about their visitors and have put in a check system that would make the FBI blush. Inside their building at 8 Beacon Street they had the entire seventh floor blocked into special rooms, one for each type of guest. Their elevator operator wore a large red, white, and blue button that announced "I Like Everybody...
Died. George McManus, 70, creator and chronicler (in the comic strip Bringing Up Father) of the nation's most enduring (over 41 years) marital brawl; of hepatitis; in Santa Monica, Calif. McManus created the redhaired, button-nosed Jiggs and his strident, crockery-slinging wife Maggie in 1912. The pair have battled in 27 different languages across the pages of some 750 newspapers. The strip's gentle spoofing of America's rags-to-riches-to-high society dream was translated into movies and radio shows, made a millionaire of Cartoonist McManus, who was regarded by his cronies...
...many cars do the automakers hope to sell in 1955? For the last two years, the predictions of Red Curtice have been right on the button. Says he of 1955: "Sales will be somewhat better than this year's estimated 5,300,000 cars." As for G.M., it should keep its 49.9% of the market, biggest it has ever...