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...reporters laughed, and Gabrielson, after thinking over his words, joined in. For Democrat McCarran, during his 18 years in the Senate, had been about as fond of New and Fair Deal medicines as Carrie Nation was of bourbon. Before the 1938 primaries, when F.D.R. himself went inland to have his say on candidates, he visited Nevada, but haughtily ignored McCarran's candidacy for renomination; McCarran had angrily fought too many New Deal measures. Shaggy Pat won anyway, went back to the Senate to cry out against aid to embattled France and Britain ("One American...
...subconscious, while I try to be as conscious as possible." Though he dotes on shoes to such an extent that they have become his trademark, Gugel insists that they have no Freudian implications for him. His grandfather, Gugel explains, was in the shoe business: "And I was always fond of grandfather...
...real life, the counterfeiter (Edmund Gwenn) confounds and frustrates the Treasury Department for ten years. Dubbed "Old 880" after the number on his bulging Secret Service file, he is a mild little Manhattan junkman, fond of dogs, children and his fellow man. While the T-men break up big counterfeiting rings, he goes blandly on passing his outrageously crude singles. He prints only about 50 a month, barely enough to keep him and his dog shabbily independent. His benign (and shrewd) policy: no more than one to a customer. When the agents finally nab him, they are wholly disarmed...
...Robert M. Goodloe lifted the curtain from Flash's silvery, over-sized cage, the bird would greet him with a dulcet, patronizing "Hello, boy." As girl workers arrived, beady-eyed Flash greeted them with wolf calls. When crossed, which was seldom, Flash cussed the air blue. He was fond of raisins, and newsmen slipped him plenty, though some said he preferred bourbon...
...Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby and Williams, but this is a minor effort, contrived and held together with unnaturally stilted dialogue...