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Curley had met Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard...
...Truman by his remark to the girls meant to bow out of the 1952 race? The question was asked point-blank at his press conference. He would answer when the time came, he replied, and grinned...
Beauty & Clarification. Gossip columnists from Paris to Los Angeles chattered excitedly. Would Ingrid get a divorce? A newsman who asked her point-blank if it was love quoted her as saying: "We have wanted to keep it quiet...
...second feature is an ordinary Western, but it contains an incredible number of point-blank gun duels in which nobody is even scratched. Gimleteyed William S. Hart would have knocked off the entire rustling population with that much ammunition...
...refugees had to take to sailing ships to escape the Red grasp. Last week's news was full of D.D.s-displaced diplomats. In Washington the Polish embassy military attache, General Izydor Modelski, ordered home by his Communist-run governme'nt, had point-blank refused to go, asked asylum in the U.S. He had a soldier's blunt reason: "I have never been a member of the Communist Party, nor have I ever been in sympathy with its aims...