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...millionaire businessman-for-Senator is Wisconsin's Frederick Harold Clausen, 65, board chairman of Holeproof Hosiery. Sober, hardheaded Fred Clausen campaigned last week on a frankly conservative, anti-New Deal, pro-defense platform, while Progressive Bob La Follette and Democrat James Edward Finnegan got in each other's and Franklin Roosevelt's hair...
...Willkie would rather be right than be President. To gain 10,000 votes in a crucial area he would not compromise a single belief. Willkie's conviction of rightness, coupled with his understanding of the seriousness of the times, had led him deliberately to take an attitude of sober seriousness. Day in & day out, he refused to make fireworks speeches. It was not that he couldn't; he wouldn't. He clung almost mulishly to his conviction that plain, serious talk will convince the voters, for the voters of 1940 are serious people who want the truth...
...standing on a counter, asked who painted it, went to see her. When he offered to pay good money for four of her pictures, Anna Moses was surprised. She was still more surprised when, two years later, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art exhibited three of them, and sober Manhattan critics called her an "authentic American primitive...
...University of Pennsylvania has the oldest medical school in the U. S., founded in 1765. The University also established the country's first university hospital, started the first clinical laboratory, published the first treatise on mental disease. It was therefore fitting that at U. of Pa.'s sober bicentennial celebration last week modern medical progress should get much attention. Noteworthy medical reports...
...Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast, he had a sober, grim warning for Americans: "We must face the facts of today. . . . The danger is imminent. ... To meet it we must pledge ourselves anew to fulfill our obligations to the nation, and again avow eternal devotion to the principles of liberty and justice upon which this nation rests...