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Hannen Swaffer, peninsula-nosed old bonebag who rattled out such fee-faw-fum dramatic criticism that London's Laborite Daily Herald turned him loose on the Tories, arrived in Manhattan with his hair in its usual bun, his tongue as tart as ever. Two new Swafferisms: 1) on Winston Churchill-"[His] opposition . . . has been childishly futile"; 2) on Britain's No. 1 Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, who attends to Methodism no less than moneybags-"I don't think there is any Methodism in his madness...
Ernie Bevin had been spoiling for this fight for 20 years. In the House of Commons canteen he gulped a cup of hot coffee and an unbuttered bun. Then he slumped down on his front bench to wait for the bell...
...command performance honoring Admiral d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return...
...broad boulevards their jeeps competed with oxcarts, with bicycles thick as gnats. Tooting streetcars fairly bulged with grinning Koreans, all in white. Pedestrians gave ground to nothing on wheels; they did not walk like conquered men. In twisted alleys and along the teeming Bun Chung, G.I.s shopped for kimonos. In the "Grill Room Hollywood" they made faces over the villainous brandy. At the "International Cultural Association" they danced (at two yen a dance) with slack-clad Kihsang girls. Over & over, the eleven-piece band played My Blue Heaven...
...Pick Nick." A New Jersey merchant's son who did his childhood prattling in Greek, Murray Butler wasted no time. Graduating from high school at 13, he entered Columbia three years later, soon became its biggest undergraduate "bun-yanker" (honor-grabber). At 20 he graduated as top man in his class, at 21 acquired his M.A., at 22 his Ph.D. He promptly became a Columbia teacher and founded Teachers College in his spare time...