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...Heart) there must be a "touch of gaiety in the air." The goal, says Willi Daume, president of the German Olympic Committee, is "a more carefree Olympiad, free of both false pathos and the fanatical pursuit of medals." Daume and the Munich planners have not wholly succeeded?no one could???but they have come close enough by creating what amounts to a vast playground of fun and Games...
...thus be able to undertake some badly needed reforms in German politics and make changes in German policy that neither would have the strength or courage to tackle alone. In foreign affairs in particular, the grand coalition will speak for Germany in a way that no single party ever could???and some changes are clearly in store...
...just another old codger's autobiography. To read it is like being monologued by an expert. Author Ford, though gossipy, is also old-fashioned in his reticences, apologizes for not being even more so. "I have tried to keep myself out of this work as much as I could???but try as hard as one may after self-effacement the great 'I', like cheerfulness will come creeping...
...specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could??? and probably will?attend to the technical points involved in the battle of proxies. But no other lawyer could bring to the Rockefeller cause such enormous prestige, such widespread confidence...
...charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy rumdum who got in? to see him?and any- one could???was sure of a handout. "Take it," Tammen would chuckle. "It's good money, all right. I made it." And no one is sure yet how H. H. Tammen, facile vender of scenic art views at the World's Fair, did make those particular pieces of money...