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Ramsay MacDonald: "Curious bird. He had a kind of Highland aloofness. You never quite knew where he was. Always rather apt to impress on you the whole burden of the world...
...most of all, Halleck is a fighter--a shrewd parliamentary tactician with little love of compromise. In his efforts to bring party members into line, he is more apt to use cold steamroller techniques than the genial coddling with which Martin was successful. This has already earned him the dislike of some Republicans, it is reported; and now that he is top man this feeling may become more widespread...
...Rotating majestically"-what an apt description of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune [Dec. 8]. You can always read in John Cowles's paper about what's going on in Ceylon or Java, but who the hell ever knows what's going on in Minneapolis...
...apt to be savagely ironic. When one of his aides, exasperated by a piece of correspondence, impatiently exclaimed "Death to all fools," De Gaulle soberly murmured: "Ah! What a vast program...
Cabaret humor is apt to be as brittle as a glass swizzle stick. Moved to the big, turbulent Broadway stage, it usually breaks. But two expert swizzlers have managed the transfer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. They started in the '30s, in Manhattan's satirical cellar nightclubs, but eventually the two brightest kids underground emerged above ground as two of the sharpest adults writing musicomedy (book and lyrics for Two on the Aisle, On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). This season Comden and Green are more visible than ever, with two flourishing Broadway shows-Say, Darling, Bells...