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Barbara Hutton, thrice-married* dime-store heiress, boarded a plane for a month's junket to Paris and London, explained with more candor than discernment why she would never marry again: "You can't go on being a fool forever...
...United States speaks as plainly upon all occasions as Russia does; the United States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its ideals as Russia does; we abandon the miserable fiction, often encouraged by our own fellow travelers, that we somehow jeopardize the peace if our candor is as firm as Russia's always is; we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to lapse...
Drowned in the giggles was any thought of happy George Allen's qualifications for the RFC job. He had proved a great capacity to crack jokes about himself, a pleasant candor about his own ambitions and finances. He had demonstrated that a good many companies-most of whom find it convenient to be on good terms with Washington-considered him a useful man to have on the payroll. But there was no hint that any of his many previous employers had ever dreamed of making him board chairman of a corporation- much less of a $10½ billion empire...
...weeks past, with unaccustomed candor, party chiefs had been talking to the people. The campaign keynote was fear of the world outside...
Earlier in the week Eleanor Roosevelt had pleaded for frankness among the delegates; before the week was out their candor could be cut with a knife. Catastrophe did not result from plain speaking; issues everyone had dreaded were not so dreadful after all. UNO was going noisily but well...