Word: hurrahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAST HURRAH (427 pp.)-Edwin O'Connor-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...simple thesis of this book is that tomorrow's President will not be elected by the people, nor by old-line machine bosses like The Last Hurrah's Frank Skeffington (see above), but by slick advertising boys on Madison Avenue. A candidate will be pretested and merchandised like "a can of beer, a squeeze tube of deodorant, a can of dog food...
Reading "The Wouk Mutiny" [Sept. 5] was like feeling a cool breeze when the temperature hits 98°. Hurrah! Decency has a champion in modern literature...
...married the perfect patient." Among their many common bonds was backgammon. Darwin tabulated the results of all their games, so that towards the end of his life he was able to write to a friend: "She, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games, whilst I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2,795 games...
...President Eisenhower's press conference next day, a reporter asked Ike if he would like to comment on the Senate action. Grinned the President: "Would it be allowable to just say hurrah...