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Winston Churchill does not mellow with age; he gets more richly crusty. His brilliantly feathered shafts find a favorite target in able but colorless Clement Attlee, whom Churchill once described as a nice, modest little man "who had a good deal to be modest about." Last week the New Statesman and Nation reported that, after Attlee had ably replied to some Churchill needling in the House of Commons, Churchill had remarked: "Feed a grub on royal jelly, and it may turn out to be a queen...
...have the Yankees," announced Tallulah Bankhead, actress and ball fan. "For years they've been cold and colorless perfectionists, and they bore the bloomers off me." Miss Bankhead's heart belongs to the Giants (who last won a pennant in 1937). "When they win I want to do cartwheels on top of their dugout," said she, "and don't think I can't. When they lose, my vichyssoise is curdled, to say nothing of my gizzard. Last season I lived on curdled vichyssoise...
...America is not a religious 'melting pot' and does not cherish a colorless uniformity of beliefs and cultural expressions. . . . We are all dedicated to the belief in the Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God, but each group can and should travel on its own road in order to achieve this coveted ideal...
...Fred Pearson, performing in his final Blue-Crimson battle, who injected a bit of the spectacular into what was otherwise a somewhat colorless 60 minutes, by connecting for two quick tallies in the space of one minute in the middle of the second period...
...colorless, fuming, oily liquid...