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...town business. Their fond hope: that a good percentage of the small-town folks will step over to the polling booths and vote for Taft. They were happy, too, when General Douglas MacArthur withdrew from the primary, with a comment which sounded like a slap at Ike and a plug for Taft. Said the general: "The immediate demand upon the citizens lies in the selection of a national leadership of demonstrated ability in the science of civil government...
Several outstanding competitor will be missing this winter: Jim Weaver, who captained last year's squad, Skiddy Lund, jumping and cross country expert, and Ed Ritvo, who led in downhill and slalom. Houser hopes, though, that new men, White Black, George Wilson, and John Glessner, may plug some of the game...
...doting foster mother. With the help of the magic dove, Toto holds the cops hilariously at bay, gives the clamorous poor whatever they want. The wishes of the poor are funny, pathetic, always vulnerably human and sometimes as shabby as the greedy designs of the caricatured plutocrat in plug hat and fur collar. Ultimately, the dove enables them to escape into the clouds on streetcleaners' brooms "to a kingdom where 'good morning!' really means 'good morning...
...California, Lightweight Art Aragon is known as the "Golden Boy." He has a handsome profile, a flashy boxing style, and a smashing left that has knocked out half of his opponents. In Harlem, Lightweight Jimmy Carter is known by no nickname, has the plug-ugly looks of a club fighter, and has about as much crowd appeal as a store-window dummy in the rush hour. But Carter has some assets of his own: a deep pride in the lightweight title he took from Ike Williams in an upset last May, and, as the boxers say, "a pair of good...
...funniest cartoonist alive. With a line as lean as Arno's is broad, Price pilots a button-eyed, beak-nosed, slack-jowled crew of slovens through a maze of organized chaos. "I never saw two fighters more evenly matched," says one fight fan to another as two plug-uglies are hauled unconscious from the ring. During a six-day bicycle race, an announcer barks into the publicaddress system: "Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Lembaugh, of 435 Grand Concourse, The Bronx, offer their only daughter, Ethel, to the winner of a five-lap sprint...