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...small town and surrounded by Russian troops with fixed bayonets. An officer boarded the train and ordered all American bank men to come with him. About a score of us were lined up in "column of twos" and marched into the village between files of soldiers. I must confess to an attack of cold sweat as we marched down the street not knowing our destination but fearing the worst...
...confess I am not the best available man," wrote resigning Mr. Whalen with exemplary modesty. ". . . Judge Mahoney is far better equipped." That new Candidate Jeremiah Titus Mahoney was better equipped, many a politician was inclined to agree. Onetime athlete (in 1897 he won New York City's all-round athletic championship), onetime law partner of New York's politically powerful Senator Robert F. Wagner (still his close friend), onetime State Supreme Court Justice (he resigned in 1928 to return to private practice), honest Jeremiah Mahoney, now 62, big-framed and firm-jawed, has made few enemies among...
...spies in Russia employed by foreign governments would please come forward and confess, it would help things enormously. This simple suggestion was earnestly put forth last week by Pravda ("Truth"), official newspaper of Dictator Joseph Stalin...
Jean de Botton is the bellwether of a small group of French painters who confess that the chief aim of their art is to give pleasure. They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves...
...André Gide speaks for a living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French Author Gide's reputation is enormously greater than his popularity. He had never written a best-seller until, at 67, he visited what he thought was the Promised Land, returned to confess that he was mistaken...