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...William Averell Harriman shattered all doubts. And as Harriman outlined the problem, it did not appear to be just a Democrat v. Republican issue. He was, he said, "the only fellow in the position to be a candidate for President" who was never "soft on Communism. No one can pin the soft-on-Communism label on me." Did Harriman mean to imply that he was less vulnerable than Adlai Stevenson or Estes Kefauver? "That smear, if it starts," he retorted heatedly to a National Press club luncheon, "is a lie and untrue. In no sense was [the statement] a disparagement...
...painful week. Two days before the election, he slipped on a slickly waxed floor in his seaside house and cracked a thighbone. Protesting that "these confounded elections are being held," he resisted treatment for a day, finally let surgeons operate and peg the break with a metal pin. But in spite of his troubles, Odría came out of the election fairly well...
With your beautiful pictures of Civil War battlefields you also show two maps, one with Arkansas, but not a single pin point to indicate that we were in that war too. Can't we rate at least a pinpoint acknowledgment? Pea Ridge opened up the Mississippi River for Shiloh and Vicksburg...
...pressure, played the last 27 holes in even par. On the last hole he was off to the left of the green behind a sand trap after his second shot. Middlecoff puffed on a cigarette for a moment, then chipped deftly. The ball rolled dead two feet from the pin. He holed out with a 281 for 72 holes, then headed for the clubhouse to sweat out the finishes of his challengers...
...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...