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...Slick Chicago promoters started a "snowball" campaign by mailing 2,000 crisp dollar bills to "sucker lists" (with an appeal to match the dollar, or better), eventually got back a clear $630,000 for a nonexistent "National Cancer Hospital." The cost of fundraising: $435,000. Another Chicago outfit raised $2,531,000 for the relief of war widows and orphans aided by Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. After fund-raising expenses were deducted, the widows' mite...
...high command," said the crisp voice from Spa, stating the terms, "expects the government to cooperate with the officer corps in the suppression of Bolshevism and in the maintenance of discipline." Ebert accepted, and out of this uneasy marriage of convenience between frightened Socialists and nerveless Junkers was born that spindly political problem child, the Weimar Republic...
...Facts are These. The real Montgomery comes out in his crisp memos. "The amount of paper in circulation is simply terrific." Montgomery complains, "It is not possible for any sane man to read more than half of it. And the other half isn't worth reading." He himself peppers his people with brief machine-gun bursts of confident prose. One sentence makes a paragraph. the two favorite marks of punctuation are the colon and period. A typical beginning: "Let us look at the facts: the facts are these." He sent a memo to British officers at SHAPE...
...displayed cool good sense. And when he walked out last week, he did so not because of the Communist insults, but because he had decided that the Communists were deliberately stalling the conference, as they also stalled the P.W. explanations. Behind the scenes, too, Dean turned in a crisp textbook performance. He had his staff prepare "situation papers" every day, and sent poorly reasoned ones back with such comments as "This would never stand up in a court...
...Orleans. She traveled by plane, train, automobile, bus and river boat. She also walked, seeing more of New York in a few weeks than many New Yorkers see in a lifetime. America Day by Day is the diary of her trip, a mixed salad of surface impressions, often crisp and pungent, more often hand-me-down gossip and soggy ad hoc generalizations, mostly unripe...