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...known as the best rough-&-tumble debater in the Senate. With 24 years' Congressional experience, 13 of them in the Senate, Tom Connally has departed just once from orthodox Democracy on a major issue-he helped Burton Wheeler lead the fight against President Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court...
...sergeant standing by the hatch suddenly turned and spoke. His men clattered to their feet. Trailing from the back of each man's pack was a 15-foot "static cord," with a buckle on the free end. Each man reached down, seized the buckle, snapped it to the overhead cable. They crowded into line, right hand on the shoulder of the man in front, shuffled toward the hatch. The sergeant tensed his body, flexed his knees down and out, dived. His static cord whipped straight behind him, tightened, yanked the canvas cover from his 'chute...
Every golfing oldster has heard about the fabulous legend of Canadian George Lyon, who scored a 70 on his 70th birthday, continued to "shoot his age" when he was 71, 72, 73, 74, 75. Last week there were no Lyons in the pack. Best Class A score for 36 holes was 180 (88-92), chalked up by C. T. Jaffray, 75, of Minneapolis...
...most of the leading New York newspapers and magazines had to pack up on a day's notice and flee with their office boys, private papers, and a few of the staff somewhere west of the Mississippi, where the Times and the Herald Tribune had to dicker with the Emporia Gazette to use its presses and become two-page Kansas locals; if the Mirror and LIFE, without photographs, came out in Utah; if the Post were seized and George Backer, its publisher, and Dorothy Thompson were put in a concentration camp in the Catskills; if the Christian Science Monitor...
MICHIGAN: William J. Hornbeck, Muskegon; Cornelius J. Pack, Iron Mountain...