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...politicos got a shock: Tom Dewey, a cool politician, appeared to have outsmarted himself. He had played coy a little too long. Six months ago, he was first told of plans to enter a slate of Dewey-pledged delegates in Wisconsin's Presidential primary. Last week, before Wendell Willkie announced that he would stump the state in person, the New York Governor could have withdrawn his name and maintained intact his pose of aloofness to party leadership. But the Dewey delegates, though forewarned of his intentions, had filed their entries last week before Dewey released the news that...
...Beside him sits a little man with dull, lustful eyes, abnormally high cheekbones, and an enormous shock of brown hair. Legally he is a Russian but the face is oriental. He is a Mongol of the easternmost end of Asia...
...young man, he was sent to school at Rome. But Rome's licentiousness shocked him as it was to shock Martin Luther ten centuries later. St. Benedict fled into the bleak wastes of the Abruzzi. Later he went to the ruins of Nero's villa near Anzio. In the rocks opposite the ruins he found a cave, where he lived forgotten by the crumbling world...
...into law a bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature, compelling Hudson County to install voting machines in each of its 658 election districts. To Hudson County dwellers, who have known only the juggernaut Hague machine (X marks the voter, dead or alive) for 27 years, this was a shock. No longer will Boss Hague be able to sit back on election night, wait until all other Jersey votes have been counted, and then send in whatever Democratic total is needed from Hudson County. Boss Hague still had a good chance: war priorities may prevent the manufacture of enough voting...
...Richard C. Gill brought back a big supply of curare from the jungles, hoping it would help spastic paralysis (TIME, July 22, 1940). It was not much help, because its effects are transient. But doctors soon began to use curare to pre vent bone breaking in metrazol shock treatments for insanity...