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Willkie was not a leader in any sense that was politically recognizable. In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even...
...Savitsch went from Antwerp to the Belgian Congo to collect data on sleeping sickness. Except for their strong smell, said he, Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...
...chest in its battle with C. I. 0.; 2) surrender of the A. F. of L. hierarchy's right to expel member unions without a vote of the delegates; 3) clean-out of racketeers in A. F. of L.'s ranks. Mr. Green, with the smell of I. A. T. S. E. cigar smoke still in his clothes, considered, agreed to the first two, hedged on the third. At week's end, valiant Mr. Dubinsky led the garment workers back anyway, deciding apparently that he could fight for his third point better from within than from without...
Mousy Mr. Landon sniffed the smell of cat. If this kind of thing kept on, G. O. P. leadership would be captured by the New Deal. Mr. Landon gnawed over the situation with Ohio's Favorite Son Robert A. Taft, in Topeka on tour. After five hours of hard discussion, Mr. Landon called in reporters, came out flatly against a Third Term, denounced coalition as a political trick. Feeling easier in his mind, he entrained for Chicago and the East...
They were just games, but they had the look, sound, smell of motorized war. They even had casualties: at week's end, twelve dead, about 200 injured. Engines aground and aloft belched more noise and fumes than did the guns (which fired blanks). There were agile, armored scout cars (with four guns, two-way radio). Excellent medium and light tanks (but no such heavy tanks as the Germans' mighty 80-tonners) rumbled up against 3 7 mm. anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews...