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...familiar figure in the government offices of the world, was trying hard to become something more than a name to the voters. He flashed ear-splitting grins as the television cameras swung his way. He began treating news photographers with a new deference. And he paused to shake hands which he would hardly have noticed before...
...Tallahassee, he marched into the state capitol to shake the hand of Governor Warren, who has been feuding with Kefauver ever since the Senate Crime Investigating Committee brought out some embarrassing facts about the political connections of gamblers in Florida. The governor just happened to be out. When Estes heard that a former Florida National Guard chief had refused to attend a Kefauver house rally, he was on the man's doorstep at 7 a.m. He was invited in, and talked over coffee for almost an hour. Said his startled host: "He almost convinced...
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, a movement was growing that would eventually shake the world of fashion. Its prophet was Benjamin Franklin, a clean-cut, red-blooded American who had no truck with those foppish foreign notions...
...driving asks to be taken off the usual showplace rounds. They spend part of the day at the shack of a Negro who has made his own daughter pregnant, wind up at a ginmill brothel where the white millionaire learns some facts of Negro life that shake his do-goodism...
...landing was the first act of a bright stunt to promote U.S. travel to Britain. In the next 17 weeks, the buses and a British promotion entourage will swing through 46 major U.S. cities from coast to coast. For the cockney drivers, the first big test was to shake off a lifetime of keeping left in London's traffic; grimly they swung into right-hand U.S. traffic behind a police escort as they worked from the river over toward the welcoming ceremonies in midtown Manhattan...