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...smattering of French subsequently landed him in Intelligence. Sergeant Streit, gangling and fresh-faced, served as one of the security guards at the peace conference at Versailles. There he worshiped from afar the man whom he had questioned skeptically as the leader of the war effort-Wilson, now the apostle of a great movement for peace...
...gathered the men whose job is to divine what the voter is thinking. Their service and their livelihood depend upon it. Cut off as they are from the front porches and backyards of the U.S., they have developed highly sensitive antennae to read the public's mind from afar. Last week the White House listeners heard, or thought they could hear, a solid concurrence in President Truman's calm-and-steady policy of unappeasing firmness toward Russia. But there were other sounds...
...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...
...young Robert Schumann, who was busily praising him from afar ("Hats off, gentlemen, a genius"), Chopin said, "I am constantly afraid that ... he will write something that will make me ridiculous forever." He complained, "Why did I not live when Bach and Mozart were living? I would burn all my trash if they considered it unworthy...
...place of honor because it was he who was about to accompany the body to Sofia, but the fact that Pravda mentioned Malenkov's name first meant that the 47-year-old boss of the Communist Party organization was on his way up. Some watchers from afar were also disturbed by the fact that Molotov was missing from the scene; but his absence was not presumed to imply disgrace, because his name appeared prominently on proclamations mourning Dimitrov. Thus Molotov remained first choice, with Malenkov a strong second, for the job of Stalin's successor, if & when Stalin...