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...crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure I'm the right...
...Harris of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked: "Has Mrs. Truman made up her mind?" Chuckling, the President replied that she has never been very enthusiastic about my holding office, but she has had to put up with it for 30 years...
...word "corrupt" is often applied to Rhee, yet his enemies never disclose specific examples of corruption. The nearest thing to proof appeared in a Reuters dispatch from Pusan on May 11. On that day, Vice President Lee resigned due to "big-scale embezzlement involving government officials and military officers...
Ordinarily, one might easily overlook an Associated Press dispatch of April 22, stating that a Russian ice hockey team played the East German All-Stars. One might also overlook the fact that Communist newspapers "stressed that friendship was the thing and the score was no object." But one cannot overlook the fact that the score of this apparently innocent game of ice hockey...
...Hear! Hear!" cried the Honorable Members last week, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell rose in the House of Commons to open the budget for 1951-52. At ?4.2 billion ($11.8 billion), it was the biggest budget in Britain's peacetime history. From the dark red dispatch box that was once William Gladstone's, Gaitskell drew the closely guarded pages of his speech. He spoke crisply for 2¼ hours, refreshed himself with occasional sips of rum-spiked orange juice. M.P.s listened intently; throughout the country, people waited anxiously...