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...head on into a waiting filibuster by Henry Wallace's running-mate, Idaho's Glen Taylor. While the floor emptied and the galleries filled, Taylor talked for eight hours and 33 minutes. At 1:10 a.m. Saturday, he was spelled by North Dakota's lone ranger, Bill Langer. Opponents of the draft sat back and chuckled. Two of the most unpopular men in the Senate were doing their work for them...
Before the week was out, The Iron Curtain had also opened at some 380 other U.S. and Canadian theaters. Some were picketed, some were not; nowhere else were there fights. In Denver the woman manager of the Esquire sympathized with a lone picket: "You must get pretty discouraged. Come on in and see the show as the guest of the management." Said he: "I guess I might as well...
...barrel-chested, black-browed and bespectacled, with thinning grey hair brushed carefully across a high-domed head. He dresses meticulously, wears custom-made blue or grey suits (his wife chooses the cloth), recently adopted a diplomat's Homburg. No backslapper, he is well-liked but something of a lone wolf in the Senate cloakrooms. In private he is amiable, with a quick, irreverent wit. When speaking he uses a sweeping sidearm gesture like a baseball pitcher's, rolls out his rounded, often eloquent periods in full, organlike tones...
...Lone victors in last Saturday's races here, the Varsity and Freshman light-weights will be joined by the untested Jayvees tomorrow in the three-race schedule. The Yearlings open the heats at 3:30 o'clock with the Jayvees and Varsity taking over in successive half-hours...
...bestselling A Study of History (TIME, March 17, 1947) well know, on the Toynbee time-&-space scale the Dark Ages are a mere cat nap and the British Empire a flash in the pan. In these 13 essays, mostly written in the past two years, Toynbee again underlines "the lone and outlandish music of ... parochial history" and speaks of the nations of this world as "subordinate and ephemeral political phenomena...