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Long ago John L. Lewis learned to distrust Franklin Roosevelt; he has come as near as is possible to saying that the President's word is no good. He believes that the President made a complete bust of his domestic policies and has since deliberately led the country toward war in order to save his political skin. He believes that the defense program is being tragically bungled, with an inefficiency fairly inviting graft and waste. He thinks the President is struggling desperately in quicksand of his own creation. He thinks the President's policies have nearly wrecked...
Once he inquired: "What aid to feminine beauty do you detest most?" Prompt was the answer of a frustrated male: "Bust developers made of sponge rubber." On another occasion he posed the question: "Did you ever kiss a man with a beard, and what reaction was there?" A girl replied: "Yes, when I was young and having my teeth straightened. Some of his whiskers caught in my wire brace, and he said 'ouch...
Installed at last in the Hall of Fame (owner: New York University; place: The Bronx) was homespun, star-spangled Composer Stephen Collins Foster (My Old Kentucky Home, Old Black Joe), whose bust was unveiled with elaborate ceremonies and the blessings of many organizations, including ASCAP...
...international officers of the A.F. of L. charged with dirty looks and flying words. Most violent word hurler was pontifical John P. Frey, president of the A.F. of L. metal-trades department, who stormed: "If necessary I'll lead [nonstriking craftsmen] through the picket line myself to bust this strike." Back of the San Francisco machinists' sullen defiance was a tradition of autonomy, the conviction that they had the right to act without interference from the parent body. Mr. Frey's threatening attitude just made matters worse...
...since then he has been teaching German at Harvard. In his home at 18 Mt. Auburn Street, he reads the Old Testament in the original, saves pennies in brass pig toward his record collection, and murders Beethoven and Haydn on the piano which stands in his bedroom beside a bust of Groucho Marx...