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Ickes transferred irritations that presumably even he did not care to air aloud. Like the first volume of the diary (TIME, Dec. 7), the second is a characteristic mixture of bureaucratic woolgathering and streaks of incisive candor that will keep historians of the New Deal sorting for years to come...
...than 5 ft. high, frail, bent, kindly Philosopher Whitehead had a bald, domed head framed by wispy white hair that made him look, in the words of one student, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." His bright blue eyes, set in a rosy-cheeked, unwrinkled face, had the candor of a child's. He spoke with a nicely articulated British accent, usually with deliberation, often with enthusiasm, and his mind had the freshness of youth. "Between the ages of 19 and 35, the imagination is most active." Whitehead told Price, "and we mostly keep going thereafter on whatever...
...patches, twice wounded, three times deco rated in the field), he is the only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...
...opposite number in Manhattan, London's Communist Daily Worker regularly passes the hat among faithful party members to keep the paper from going under. Last week, after warning again of the paper's dire financial straits, the Worker's appeal struck a note of unwitting candor: "Our readers are lulling themselves into the belief that there is no danger at all. That is a desperate mistake. The point can and will be reached when the economies we are being forced to effect may result in a much worse paper...
...been a fateful week in the history of American Government," said Stevenson. "We are witnessing the bitter harvest from the seeds of slander, defamation and disunion planted in the soil of our democracy . . . Where we looked forward to a nation united, we have a people divided. Where we expected candor, we have misrepresentation. Where we expected firm leadership, we have timidity...