Word: getterism
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...with cues from the U.S., Osone provides some fascinating clues to the Japanese taste and popular spirit. In one scene, for instance, a sort of Japanese Bobby Clark (Shunji Sakai) muddles interminably with some chicken droppings in the baron's parlor; in Japan this was a sure laugh-getter. And then at the end, when the slamming samurai has foiled the villain and won his lady love (Kuniko Ikawa), do they leap into each other's arms? Not at all. The hero rides sadly away, and the sound track sings to the heroine: "Your hawk has flown away...
...York Congressman who is far more New Dealish than many Democrats. (He voted against the Taft-Hartley law, for continuing federal rent control,) Statewide, he ran 176,000 ahead of Junior, 36,000 ahead of Harriman. His total vote - 2,590,631 - made him 1954's biggest vote-getter...
...prospect of actually serving. His motives in taking the nomination seem to have had a slight touch of Machiavellianism. He apparently accepted it with the expectation that even if the whole ticket lost, he could decisively outrun the other Democratic candidates and so win recognition as the strongest vote-getter in the state party. Obviously Roosevelt made a disastrous miscalculation...
...fill Case's seat, the Sixth Congressional District-which Case had carried by a record margin-went Democratic for the first time since it was remapped in 1932. Before long, G.O.P. state leaders, who had decided that U.S. Senator Robert Hendrickson could not be reelected, were urging Vote-Getter Case to move back into politics. At their urging, Case resigned the $40,000-a-year Ford job last March to make the race...
...show, Como demonstrated why he is the acknowledged TV master of song. Relaxed to the point of bonelessness, he is something of an Ed Sullivan steeped in aplomb, and presents the very picture of ease and graciousness. Como this year will repeat last season's big audience-getter: religious songs. For Catholics, Como sang a musical version of the Act of Contrition; for Protestants, Onward Christian Soldiers; and for Jews, he wore a yarmulke (skull cap) and sang Kol Nidre...