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...North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb...
...Obiter Dictum. In Fort Worth, 6-ft.-10, 300-lb. L. J. Mitchell was granted a divorce when he testified that his wife had fired a rifle at him, but Judge Frank P. Culver mused: "I don't see how she missed...
Winthrop House has switched to a showing of Charlie Chaplin films after its Christmas dinner next Thursday. The change was made after dictum from the House office told the Deacons that they could not put on a show that "would embarrass any women from...
...sometimes simple fuzzy-mindedness, as in Eleanor Roosevelt's dictum in a recent column: "There is one great truth that will have to be accepted everywhere before the people will be at peace. That is that it will have to be established that there...
...grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...