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...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, picked up a direct line to the War Room at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the supreme U.S. commander in the Pacific (TIME cover, Aug. 14). Sharp was discussing the attack with his aides when the amber light on his dialless gold telephone flashed on. Wheeler wanted to make sure that the Seventh Fleet was ready. Sharp assured him that...
...James Callaghan, 52, who tried to symbolize new approaches by carrying his speech in a plain manila envelope rather than the traditional battered attache case. Known as "the Mod from the Treasury" because of his sharp wardrobe, Callaghan on this occasion was all business, shunned the customary tumbler of "amber liquid" resorted to by Chancellors during their long, dry budgetary speeches. But Callaghan was less of an innovator in the budget itself. Main points...
...Wasps in Amber. With casual vividness, the old dandy sketches Hoby the Bootmaker, an insolent St. James Street shopkeeper who sneered at every customer up to and including the Iron Duke himself; Colonel Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel...
...much of a literary stylist, Gronow employs a direct but flat prose that captures his subjects like wasps in amber. Yet between the lines, his frigid, faultlessly attired figure dominates the book. He emerges haughty, violently prejudiced, yet worldlywise. As one contemporary wrote: "He committed the greatest of follies without in the slightest disturbing the points of his shirt collar." Can any modern memoirist make the same claim...
...Roche, a respected constitutional historian at Brandeis, belongs to a new breed of "tough-minded" liberals who try to avoid inflexible positions and judge the issues on their merits. Naturally, this does not sit well with ideological types, who, according to Roche, "seem to be preserved, like flies in amber, in the militant postures of their youth." In this collection of essays Roche has written, in effect, a brilliant riposte to the dogmatic left...