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...fault too, of another interloper, a big, shambling bear of a man with tousled dark hair, great beefy shoulders, a long, determined upper lip, a fast, tough mind. Wendell Lewis Willkie, 48, product of an Indiana Main Street and New York's Wall Street, was in town. The Convention had not invited him; the Convention wished he were anywhere else. On that dark Sunday afternoon Wendell Willkie was already a political phenomenon without parallel or precedent, a new face, a new force, something powerful and strange cast...
...elective in the school of human life. . . . The forces of evil which now threaten our very existence pursued their diabolic purposes with fierce and unflinching determination. . . . Contrast their remarkable steadiness of purpose and resolute will with the indecision, halfheartedness and hypocritical behavior of those who rendered profuse lip service to the cause of peace and democracy...
Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...
...spent $220,000 to repair Telefonica and got ready to resume operations over Spain's 346,000-telephone circuit. But Dictator Franco had other ideas. Paying lip service to eventual restoration of foreign property rights, he kept the system and its 8,000 employes under Government management, quibbled with I. T. & T. over rehiring some of its 20 American executives. I. T. & T., with a $67,372,241 investment (nearly one-seventh of its total assets) in the Spanish subsidiary, was troubled. Fortnight ago Franco put an end to the utility's anxiety by returning the management...
...willing to be a Vice-Presidential candidate on a Garner ticket (in Tennessee it had been Hull). As he often does, he held a press conference in a barber shop: he is the only man in the U. S. who can talk while a barber shaves his upper lip...