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Raised above the ruck of workaday unfortunates by the special quality of their afflictions were two people: Jack-of-All-Theatrics Orson Welles and Jill-of-All-Parties Elsa Maxwell...
...East Harlem's workaday citizens, however, Marcantonio is the man who fought Lend-Lease and the draft-until Germany invaded Russia; the man who has repeatedly denied Communist leanings while faithfully following the gyrations of the party line. Tammany, the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. and the A.L.P. were all supporting little Marc for re-election-but that might not be enough...
Chirographical Gumshoe. To clinch their point, the unromantic authors enlisted Louis A. Waters, a chirographical gumshoe, whose workaday job is special consultant in forgery cases for the New York state police. Says Author Smith: Chirpgrapher Waters "is not a Shelley specialist and has nothing about Shelley to prove other than that some manuscripts are in Shelley's hand and others are not." Expert Waters' findings: libraries and collectors are cherishing more forged Shelley documents than genuine ones; many of the Shelley family's documents are forged...
...motivation for this hairbreadth nonsense is a $500,000 diamond necklace. Bracken gets involved only because he is a featherbrained kleptomaniac. The hoodlums keep busy because they have their workaday jobs to do. Veronica Lake is vaguely and halfheartedly associated with the hoodlums...
President Truman sent his first peacetime message to Congress. In 16,000 workaday words-the longest Presidential message since Theodore Roosevelt's 20,000-word document in 1901-he laid out his program for peace and prosperity...