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Florida is entitled to a correction in this matter so that the public will know that justice in Florida is not only swift and sure but also lair...
...motorcade stood waiting. At the swift pace which he always prefers, the Governor of New York and next President of the country was swept down the Hudson to Manhattan. On the way he stopped for luck at a firehouse-he had done that in 1928, to telephone his daughter, while being elected Governor. Then the motorcade rushed on, special reason for its speed being that Gus Generich, one of the bodyguards, had to get in town to vote. Meantime throughout the length & breadth of the land, some 40,000,000 citizens were proceeding in quiet, orderly fashion to cast their...
...single digits in 1/660th of a second. In one second he can scan a dozen two-digit numbers and call out the total. He can glance at a twelve-digit number, as 122,432,523,591, and repeat it 24 hours later. He attributes his speed and accuracy to "swift perception, long memory span, fluent associations, concentration, imagery." The number 9,836, for example, means to him 90 squared, plus 40 squared, plus 10 squared, plus six squared. He remembers 543 because 1543 is the date of Copernicus' death...
...State Elections Massachusetts Governor Ely, 478,834 Youngman, 391,238 L.t.-Governor Bacon, 199,249 Swift, 157,628 New York City Elections O'Brien...
...Author! We want the author!" cried the Abbey Players' audience. They got him. As the curtain fell on his one-act play, famed William Butler Yeats, 67, a portly, grey-haired gentleman, stepped upon the stage. Then one great Irishman spoke briefly about another. The spirit of Swift, Poet-Senator Yeats explained, still broods over the Emerald Isle. The tragedy and wisdom of Swift permeate, he feels, the Irish character. That was what he had tried to get at in his play. He thanked one & all for their attention, left the theatre as the curtain rose on Synge...