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Johns, riding his campaign road grader hard, pledged a good part of the state's entire road funds to a single Jacksonville highway. Wearing a made-to-order train conductor's uniform, he whooped it up with his "wool-hat boys," sneered at the "silk stockings." He even made an issue of foreign aid ("I think the money should be spent in America, for Americans, and particularly for the old folks"). His demagoguery seemed like a surefire success until last week's voting...
...years later, when Ray was spending his summers working in a lumberyard in Tellico Plains, one of his co-workers was another lanky Monroe County boy named Estes Kefauver. Estes was a lumber handler, hoisting it into freight cars. Ray was a grader, checking lumber as it was piled in the cars. Says Tennessee's Senator Kefauver: "I was always kind of envious of him. He could stay in the boxcar where it was cool; I had to stay...
...father had come to this country at the age of 17 from Germany. He was a successful businessman and quite active in community affairs ... I attended the Ethical Culture School and Harvard College, which I entered in 1922." . A classmate recalls that, as a third-or fourth-grader, Robert made one of his infrequent trips to the playground. A child threw a ball out of the lot, and the school director admonished the youngsters, telling them they might have injured a passerby. Robert immediately calculated the probable force with which the ball had struck the sidewalk, demonstrating that its velocity...
...Matisse's expression is readable and interesting; and unlike many essays of this type it rarely gets tangled in metaphysics. In the latter part of the essay, the author discusses a Mallarme sonnet and this part perhaps could have been left to the more curious eyes of the Humanities grader...
Last week Third-Grader Holly Hyde bounced into the hospital board room so that American Cancer Society officials could see for themselves that she now seems fully recovered. Her reading has improved, she has no more spells and feels, as she chirped, "fine...