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...struggled always to say "telephone" (instead of "phone") and "whiskey and soda" (instead of "highball"). "TOMATO," says Author Fenwick firmly, "is better pronounced 'to-mah-to,' as ... it comes from the Spanish Toma-te,' which is pronounced 'tomahtay.'' This is a much hotter potato* than Author Fenwick seems to realize...
...have some rules that are exact but not onerous, and let us have them before the campaign gets much hotter. If this fall's experience finds them inadequate, they can be revised later, but at least they will furnish the College campaigner with a political road map speed limits...
Counterarguments that half a loaf was better than none only made Tobey hotter. "I accept this challenge," he cried, "and I'll see them in-you know where . . . Damn the legislative torpedoes. Let's go ahead and give the country what the American people want...
...cries from the opposition testified to the effectiveness of the maneuver. "This petulant Ajax from the Ozarks," warned New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, would be answered by the "maddest Congress you ever saw." Southern Democrats were even hotter. Cried Georgia's Senator Walter George: "The South is not only over a barrel. It is pilloried. We are in the stocks...
TIME had assigned a reporter to every candidate and important delegation to keep the "smoke-filled room" vigil, and to find and cover every caucus, press conference and "secret meeting." They worked 18-20 hours a day under the hot Philadelphia sun and the hotter 45,000-watt lights of Convention Hall, and about the only thing they missed was sleep. Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor even managed to get around to Dewey's fashion show where, he reports, "the models wore garters with pink elephants on them . . . Furthermore," he added, "who should turn up in the Maryland delegation...