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SATAN MUST BE WELL PLEASED WITH YOUR SELECTION. CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION...
...Press Secretary Jim Hagerty's announcement that President Eisenhower might possibly cancel longstanding plans to speak at a Republican congressional campaign fund-raising dinner in Chicago next week (the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration) started a storm of cries from the G.O.P. National Committee. The Chicago affair was a near sellout with Ike's name on the billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White...
...looked at from behind, appeared like a reversed letter C; for no known reason most such curves are in this direction. Because it was a single curve it was certain to be deforming-many scoliosis cases have two curves, one right and one left like a letter S, which cancel each other out and leave a good balance, with no worse effect than a shortening of the trunk. And Margie's case was severe. Special Surgery doctors grade cases by a technique developed by one of their leading scoliosis specialists. Dr. John R. Cobb; with a protractor, applied...
...intermission she locked herself in her dressing room with her friend, Gossipist Elsa Maxwell, and sobbingly told opera officials outside her door that she could not go on. Because Callas herself had refused to have an understudy at rehearsal, the management had no choice but to cancel the rest of the performance. Cracked an American in the audience: "After this Casta Diva, they may just cast a diva into the Tiber...
...every neither with a nor. Sample: "American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. . .it is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Barony." Pursued relentlessly, this mode of thought leaves the reader with the eerie feeling that America is a civilization in which the pluses and minuses cancel each other out except for a vague residue of ectoplasmic uplift, which Lerner calls America's "organic optimism...