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Early yesterday afternoon the Corporation issued a crisp forty-word statement which gave no inkling of the group's intentions in regard to choosing the man to replace Jordan. The statement said...
...favorite pastimes is verbal fencing with the village postmaster and storekeeper, a quick wit and warm-souled man who longs during baking July noons for crisp October dawns at the remote Lake St. John, where he makes his annual duck-hunting excursion. His work seems like play to most people because he has a good time with almost everyone, gently ribbing arrogant, hurried visitors, facetiously stalling intent and flashy wholesalers' "drummers." His laugh sounds more like a caw of a crow than anything else, and there's usually something--whether it's the Red Sox, the "Com'unists," or lazy...
...last four years, the President had made a series of "crisp, rippling decisions" about anything but the color of his ties, or had "moved surefootedly" to anywhere but the nearest golf course, the U.S. would not now be forced to "patch and clean up the Western Alliance...
...been cracked up to be. Said his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edgar Eisenhower of Tacoma, Wash., at a women's club meeting: "I know the President's cooking is all bluff. He turns the knob on high, burns it to a crisp, and that...
KINGDOM OF THE BEASTS, by Julian Huxley and W. Suschitzky (159 pp.; Vanguard; $ 12.50), is the next best thing to a safari, or long afternoons spent at a zoo. The photographs are unusually fine and Zoologist Huxley contributes crisp and informative notes as well as a highly readable essay on the mammal world...