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...workaday diplomacy, Canadian government leaders liked the attentive hearing Steinhardt gave their problems and his willingness to go to bat for Canada in Washington. "The trouble with Canadians is that they never make enough noise...
...prim side himself. Perkins bravely went to bat for his outspoken writers. Sometimes this got him into half-ridiculous situations. When he told steely old Charles Scribner II that there were only three really offensive words in one Hemingway manuscript, Scribner crisply asked which they were. Perkins could not bring himself to say; he had to write them...
...could be accomplished by much less loss to the College and to the persons involved? The morals of the College need very little raising, a light tap is sufficient to clarify the moral issue (and keep the books in Lamont); beating the sinner's brains out with a baseball bat is, as I said, barbarous...
...shiny-pated Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has a Texan's distaste for FEPC itself, brushed aside two more Southern appeals for adjournment and ordered the District of Columbia Committee to call up any measures it had on tap. If it had none, FEPC supporters would be next at bat-and that was precisely what the Dixie-controlled District Committee wanted to avoid. For the rest of the day its members kept the House in meandering debate on the question of incorporating the Girl Scouts, enlivening the discussion occasionally with a few bitter sideswipes at FEPC...
...skip over the news of the H-bomb in the papers," said a man in London last week, "and then I look at my neighbor and think: 'How can that fool sit there and read how they're going to blow him up and never bat an eye?' " Doc Hicks, proprietor of a barbershop on South Audubon Road, Indianapolis, summed up for his customers: "I don't think the public understands it. That's why they don't talk much about it." The "it" was certainly hard to understand, and so men talked...