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...that the description might fit Harry Truman, in spite of all the denials. Truman admires and trusts Krock, and might conceivably be trying-out the back door-to persuade his party to drop the Fair Deal in exchange for a candidate who could win and who could heal the split with the Southern Democrats. Next-ranking suspect was Democratic Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who dined with Krock at Washington's Carlton Hotel just before he went across the street to visit Ike at the Statler. Baruch categorically denied...
Guevara Moreno appeals to Ecuador's 60?-a-day rice-mill laborers, the inflation-struck white-collar class, the rank & file of the army and the wretched unemployed living in the split-bamboo shacks hidden behind Guayaquil's impressive masonry waterfront buildings. Plaza's tolerant democracy, though it provides the free press and elections Guevara needs, is not enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers...
...plays the game because he likes it;† he plays superlatively well because, starting with a good share of natural ability, he also has a burning zeal to excel, which has made him a meticulous attender to details. At practice, he wants to know the reason for every split-second step in every play; once he is convinced, he practices until he has it, muscle-perfect...
...young ladies of America stole the stage that summer. Minneapolis school officials split over the issue of starting a course for beauticians. Superintendent W. F. Webster of the Vocational High School was quoted by TIME: "The American women want bobbed hair . . . The new style . . . has created a new demand for a particular kind of service. This demand is as real as is the demand for dressmakers or milliners." Board of Education President A. P. Ortquist retorted: "It is criminal to spend the taxpayers' money to teach girls to bob hair and clean fingernails." (TIME noted on March...
Throughout the week, Bill rode in the front seat of the royal limousine to make sure that his split-second timing worked. The first day he slid in beside the chauffeur there was no comment from the back seat. By the second morning, the Princess apparently had done some checking, piped up with a cheery "Good morning, Huskey." The third day, it was "Good morning, Bill." But Bill Huskey's greatest satisfaction was the wide-eyed amazement of the visiting Mounties and Scotland Yard at the thoroughness of his arrangements. Says Bill: "The Scotland-Yard guy and the Mounties...