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...BYRD...
Cars & Paper. Mr. Truman's own party colleagues did a little better. Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, a man who some day hopes to hear a Lincoln-head penny holler Uncle, wanted to fry off $9.1 billion-$200 million from the Veterans Administration, $500 million out of the Defense budget, $3.5 billion out of the $7.5 billion foreign-aid program and $4.9 billion out of the domestic-civilian sectors of the Truman budget...
...time the Shah got his set, there were already hundreds of lords & masters of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (including George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from A to Zygote, that...
...Byrd, a bachelor played by Guinness, is told that he has a fatal disease and but a few weeks to live. Byrd has neither family nor friends to regret, only unfulfilled desires. He leaves all he has--his job--and resolves to spend a last holiday at an exclusive seaside hotel. There he is offered "influence, riches, love and kisses," none of which can be his. "The Last Holiday" has another and a last tragedy, an ending tense because of its substance and its sudden inevitability...
...Last Holiday" has a great deal to say, but not once does it speak with the offensiveness of a "message." Byrd is a nice guy, and, to quote Leo Durocher, "nice guys always finish last." A lot of charlatans surround this nice guy, a lot of charlatans...