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...public officeholders; this excluded many of the state's Republican Party leaders, but would have given a seat to rabidly New Dealing Senator James Murray-who failed to appear (a traffic jam delayed him, his friends said). During a brief talk about natural resources, however, the President did slip in a plug for the G.O.P. senatorial candidate. Representative Wesley D'Ewart, whom Ike described as "my good friend...
Artist Wiinblad, 35, was a struggling painter of children's portraits who worked as a typesetter to round out his diet during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Friends at the Arts and Crafts School introduced him to ceramics. Fascinated, he defied the Nazi curfew to slip into the school at night to work at the kilns. After his first ceramics show proved a critical and popular success, he started his own shop with three kilns and two helpers. They worked long and seriously through the week. But on Saturday they had fun, making spontaneous, gay pieces. Since then, these...
Should the conversation slip around to what ship you took to Europe, remember this point: you either went first class on a palatial liner or worked across as a stripper on a grimy whaler out of Oslo. There is no such animal as an in-between ship. The last average ship to make interesting conversation was the Santa Maria...
Check Records. A checkbook with carbon paper inserts similar to a sales-slip book was put on the market by Mor-Ezy Co. of Dallas. When a depositor writes a check, the carbon copy serves as a record...
Caen's column was hardly on the streets when readers began to phone the paper. They pointed out that an almost identical story about an unnamed woman had appeared in the August issue of Reader's Digest. Two days later Caen printed a brief apology for the slip, and sent the magazine a check for $20 to cover reprint rights on the story-the same sum Caen has often been paid for an item by the Digest...