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...Davidson began as a newsboy. In 1907 he headed for Europe with a $40 stake to study art. Since 1910 he had shuttled busily and profitably between the U.S. and Europe. His most important commission: bronze busts of World War I's allied leaders. Davidson's own bland explanation of success: "It's not talent that counts, it's the driving energy...
...leader in Florida, shy, greying Harry Tyson Moore seemed to personify a new and subtle change in the mores of the South: the indisputable fact that the white Southerner is slowly accepting the Negro's right to the vote and fuller freedom under the law. Moore was a bland, scholarly, teetotaling sort of man who taught school most of his life, but he was a firebrand for all that. And Floridians allowed him to have...
...play wanders through a whole drawing-room world of deception and self-deception, of complacent male stupidity and bland female betrayal. The wit less dazzles than disconcerts, as in the Maugham test of true love: "Could you use his toothbrush?" But The Constant Wife, in any case, is less a triumph of wit than of tone...
Jessup's bland effort to show that he and others never entertained the idea of recognizing Red China is a continuation of a monumental State Department project: an attempt to rewrite the department's private history so that it will read better in the light of current events. This effort, undoubtedly influenced by the climate of McCarthyism and the 1952 election, would be hazardous at any time; it is worse than that today, when the U.S. should be looking to the future...
...Bland Reminder. Through all the turmoil, Washington blandly reminded everyone that some confusion was bound to occur as CMP got under way. However, the news is so bad that a few steelmen think the way out is to bring every industry under CMP, and have complete allocations. The big majority, like Bethlehem's Grace, think that CMP should control only the steel for direct arms output. The rest should be left free...