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Said one Sun man: "He's exactly what we've been needing around this shop." Said another, who had been planning to leave in disgust: "I think I'll stick around awhile. He looks O.K." New Man. Until he went to work for the Sun last week, 45-year-old Eli Zachary Dimitman had never worked outside Philadelphia. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer 18 years ago as rewriteman, was city editor when Moses L. (Moe) Annenberg, the racing-sheet publisher now dead, took over the Inquirer in 1936. Talent-wise Moe Annenberg at once made Dimmy executive...
...sergeant somewhere in the southwest Pacific. Baltimore-born, poverty-wise, he is a Jew who has lived outside the pale in a democracy that often proudly kids itself that it erects no pales. At the University of Virginia, which he attended only long enough to leave in disgust, he decided that
...father's disgust he began to dabble in occultism. Barrel-like old Madame Blavatsky warned him against removing, with his beard, the occult forces which were making a hangar of it. He joined the cabalistic Order of the Golden Dawn and played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...
...Have Met, We Have Talked." Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill did not have to go to Africa to bring General Giraud and General de Gaulle together. But the conflict between Giraud and De Gaulle was indicative of a basic disagreement between U.S. and British foreign policies. Expressive of the disgust which U.S.-backed policies inspired in many Anglo-Saxon minds was a false news bulletin, dated Jan. 7, 1945, which a wit posted in no less a place than Allied Headquarters in Algiers. It read...
...couple of decades Woollcott made himself a notorious wiseacre occupying a Manhattan apartment ("Wit's End") where he expounded his liberal beliefs, struck extravagant attitudes, greeted friends ("Hello, repulsive"), dismissed bores ("I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss. How about getting the hell out of here...