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...Senate and favorite son of a nearly solid South, campaigning unofficially for the Presidency deep in the heart of New York City. Technically his three-day invasion of the North began with rounds of luncheons, speeches and conferences in Chicago, but Johnson did not really hit his stride until he got to New York, center of what he sometimes calls "Northern bigotry." There, in a 40-hour whirlwind, he shook the hands of all Democratic factotums and factions, talked tactical politics with New York State Chairman Michael Prendergast and Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio. He rubbed shoulders with Negro...
Forcing onward on his U.S. tour (TIME, Jan. 4), Britain's doughty Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 80, steamed by train into Pittsburgh, hit his typical stride by riding from his Pullman sleeper to the depot on a baggage cart. After being pushed some 300 yds. (the length of eleven passenger cars) by a Pennsylvania Railroad cop and a Pittsburgh Symphony flack, Sir Thomas met the usual pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays...
...point of view, came in the Cardinal Cushing 1000 and the Prout 600. In the 1000, the New York Athletic Club's Tom Murphy, the Pan-American 800-meter champion, took his customary lead and seemed headed for victory. Far back in the pack, seemingly having trouble hitting his stride, was Yale's great Tommy Carroll...
...till Poor Richard that Franklin hit his stride as a maker and collector of aphorisms; e.g., "After 3 days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is also chockablock with moralistic homilies. D. H. Lawrence once carped that Franklin "made himself a list of virtues, which he trotted inside like a gray nag in a paddock." Lawrence was not the first or the last to be infuriated by Franklin's middle-class prudence; yet Franklin's maxims-many...
...Columbus who took Lucas' spectacular first week in stride was Lucas himself, who is attending Ohio State on an academic scholarship with no extras thrown in for athletics. "First come my studies," he says, "and then basketball." Lucas maintains an A-minus average (botany, American history, English), can see so far beyond the basketball court that he has no plans to play with the pros. "I think it's a hard life with all that traveling and living in hotels," says Big Luke, as serious as a sophomore can be. "I want to settle down...