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...stood a centrist liberal 17 percent organized by Don S. Willner '47--national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted activity. Nevertheless when the chips were down the slate of officers advanced by the SDA group won a near clean sweep...
...pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...Slate Cleaned...
...FACT IS THAT PICTURE IS BEING MADE BY JOHN W. ROGERS AND HARRY JOE BROWN FOR INDEPENDENT RELEASE. . . . SLATE IN SCENE IS FOR FILM CUTTER AND DIRECTOR'S USE IN FINAL CUTTING OF PICTURE, INDICATING PROPER SEQUENCE OF SCENES. NO PRISON PICTURE THIS BUT WELL DONE STORY OF FOOTBALL TWINS' FAME AT WEST POINT AND AT HOME, GIVING PUBLIC WHO COULD NOT SEE ARMY TEAM IN ACTION CHANCE TO SEE THREE-TIME ALL-AMERICAN BOYS IN ACTION...
...they would have to pile up enough votes to win the nomination on an early ballot, before any such combustion could take place. To that end they tried to parlay a firm core of Dewey delegates into an illusion of Dewey's inevitability, thus roll up an overwhelming slate of backers well ahead of time. The kind of delegates they wanted were stampede-proof, blitz-proof, down-the-line Dewey...