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...Government's star witness: Shake down Expert Willie Bioff, who was let out of jail to sing on his ex-chums. Dapper, wily Willie, nothing loath, sat calmly in a swivel-chair, hands clasped meditatively over his stomach - and sang...
Except when he is on tour, Maier broadcasts from a St. Louis studio. He perspires so profusely that he takes off his shirt. When he has to wear shirt and coat before an audience his collar is wilted and his clothes sopping. Even so, he stays to shake hands with his listeners, often standing three hours to do it. He says he likes it, that his hand never gets sore...
...milling crowd of some 200 in the low-ceilinged assembly room. They were leaders in local affairs from such poles apart as reactionary old ex-Governor Merriam and liberal New Dealing John Anson Ford of the County Board of Supervisors. (One well-meaning lawyer whispered to Willkie not to shake hands with Ford: "He's a radical." Willkie and Ford shook nevertheless...
Bernard Shaw wrote to Chesterton: "Faith is a curious thing. . . . You will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with a sense of his ridiculousness and yours-all incredible, monstrous, comic...
...True Stand. The shake-up showed the changed opinions of the new Government of Argentina since it came to power last June. Then the end of the war seemed very far away, dependence on the U.S. a necessity. By September the urgency of Yankee aid could seem much less to nationalistic Argentines; postwar European markets seemed within reaching distance. Thus Allied victories strengthened the anti-Allied, weakened the pro-Allied forces...