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...anyone in headquarters who should not be there, or whose hands are not clean, I shall dismiss him . . ." Then, with a series of broom-strokes, he: 1) demanded, within 48 hours, a detailed description of every committee employee's job, salary and political references; 2) promised to weed out "supernumeraries"; 3) froze all committee expenditures until a new executive committee could audit the budget; 4) declared he would serve without salary. (Boyle was paid $35,000 a year.) "May no act of mine," McKinney said evenly, "ever prove embarrassing to the President, my family, the Democratic Party or myself...
Police Protection. In Burlington, Vt., when Perley Weed, 24, reported the theft of his car, the cops investigated, charged that Weed's license had been suspended and that his car was improperly registered, hauled him off to county jail...
...total of ten 1950 line lettermen returning makes it impossible for line coach Ted Schmitt or end coach Joe Maras merely to weed out inexperience--a rife and rampant malady on this fall's squad. These ten, a handful of former substitutes and jayvees, and five promising sophomores must be woven together into a series of well-integrated lines. Lloyd Jordan has his weaving...
...total of ten 1950 line lettermen returning makes it impossible for line coach Ted Schmitt or end coach Joe Maras merely to weed out inexperience--a rife and rampant malady on this fall's squad. These ten, a handful of former substitutes and jayvees, and five promising sophomores must be woven together into a series of well-integrated lines. Lloyd Jordan has his weaving...
After a quick weed-out by a staff of professional readers, B-o-M's five judges ponder from twelve to 20 manuscripts a month (of the 275 or so to be published). Pollster George Gallup is a member of B-o-M's board of directors nowadays, conducts surveys after the books have been sent out to see "how the members liked them." But Founder Scherman sternly warns against the easy assumption that Dr. Gallup ("He knows more about advertising than any man in the U.S.") influences in any way the judges' choice...