Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...William H. Alexander bounced springily around Oklahoma last week. His mellow voice swung low to squeeze a tear, lifted lightly to pick off a laugh, soared high with holy indignation. "In this crusade," cried Bill Alexander, as background music from a choir swelled behind him, "I see the magnificent march of the living God and I hear the thunder of His feet." He meant that he was running for the Senate against the Democrats' quiet, able Congressman Mike Monroney...
...Pick a headline any Boston sports page's football headline early in the yearend if it's optimiable, it'll be about the "great" Harvard freshman football team. This year, last year, any year, it'll say, "They're strong, They're fast;" According to the sports writers, "Harvard is building for the future...
...Victor was out to wrap up a fast-selling Christmas package (and incidentally promote its 45-r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
...second book of Blandings is not so homely-timely as the first, but it will probably have just as big a popular success; it is a Book-of-the-Month Club pick for October, and contains almost as many situations for Gary Grant and Myrna Loy as Dream House...
...also mentioned the possibility of a dateless grad student hiring two sitters and taking his pick...