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Thin shadow's slanted across the late afternoon, streaking the slate-grey waters of the Severn. On the Annapolis shore, spectators took a long second look at the river. Was the haze-dimmed sun playing tricks, or was that an extra shell rowing out to the starting line for the annual Navy-Princeton varsity crew race? To sharp eyes, five interlocked circles, the Olympic insigne. stenciled on the shell's bow. explained the interloper's presence. The "Admirals." Navy's 1952 champions, were back in competition, tuning up to try for a second Olympic title...
...Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most clearly." Sandemar, a world-roaming aristocrat among tramps, carries a slate on which he writes and then wipes out his thoughts. Why? "I'll tell you-because we have found nothing. We merely find that it is possible to say almost anything. But afterward we strike out by degrees everything that can be said...
...every cause to be pleased with his progress. Though he insisted (and local dopesters agreed) that he was still running second to Stevenson in Florida, he had clearly made inroads in Adlai's strength there. And while New Jersey still looked safe for Governor Robert Meyner's slate in the April 17 primary, it was noteworthy that Meyner huddled with Estes for 40 minutes behind closed doors and was careful to show him every mark of public amity, including a joint press conference. Said Kefauver's Campaign Manager F. (for Florence) Joseph Donohue: "We've been...
Indiana, where no other candidate has filed. In New Jersey, where a slate of Kefauver delegates will oppose an uncommitted slate headed by Governor Robert Meyner in the April 17 primary, Kefauver men were laying out a busy, five-day campaign schedule for their candidate. Governor Meyner, who has been reported leaning to Stevenson, but is anxious to escape the fate of Minnesota's Stevenson-supporting Governor Orville Freeman, invited the Senator from Tennessee to lunch...
...seven acts of vaudeville, two complete ballets, about 15 casinos, several thousand slot machines and an oil gusher-not to overlook Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Frank Sinatra, Lena Home, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Cara Williams, Jerry Colonna, Agnes Moorehead. Sammy Davis Jr., the Four Aces, the Slate Brothers, Peter Lorre, and something that looks suspiciously like a seven-year-old geisha girl...