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...Budget Day is the House of Commons' most festively expectant annual occasion, signaling the power of the purse, which raised the House to supreme authority in Britain. Some M.P.s arrived soon after dawn, hours before the Chancellor of the Exchequer was due to show up carrying the battered dispatch case used by Gladstone and by every Chancellor since. A few Tory traditionalists wore black silk toppers. Sir Winston Churchill, who attended his first Budget Day in 1901, beamed from his bench below the gangway, sporting a huge red geranium in his lapel...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot...
Marx and Legman Engels made an extraordinarily productive reporting team. Writes Hale: "With Teutonic diligence, they dredged up from diplomatic dispatches, statistical abstracts, government files, the British Museum, gossip and newspapers in half a dozen languages, a mass of information on going topics such as had never reached an American newspaper before." Marx wrote on political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some...
...Tribune started cutting back on all foreign coverage. Though kindhearted Editor Dana still gave them hackwork writing jobs. the comrades were convinced that they had been betrayed and exploited: "Diese Yankees sind dock verdammt lausige Kerle [Those Yankees are damned lousy bums]." Marx's last signed dispatch appeared in the Tribune in December...
...everybody has the stuff to be an art collector; it takes money and taste as well as the urge to collect. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had all three by the time he was a senior at Harvard. Grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, son of its second editor-publisher, he had been surrounded by art at home from childhood, and had sharpened his taste in four years as a fine arts major. In 1936 Joe Pulitzer made his first leap as a collector, bought Amedeo Modigliani's Elvira Resting at a Table (opposite). For the next...