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...Clara Jo had a sheaf of Easter Seals and a lapel pin; for Clara Jo's cause Ike had $5, and for her stuffed dachshund he had an autograph. Pulling open a drawer of his desk, the President looked at the contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven...
...wiretapping charges. Among Broady's clients: a Wildenstein Vice President, Emmanuel J. Rousuck, 55. In court testimony, Rousuck -as an individual-admitted hiring Wiretapper Broady to put a bug on the telephone of Art Dealer Rudolph Heinemann, who frequently works with Knoedler's in top-drawer transactions. For a payment of $125-$!50 a week, testified Rousuck, he received recordings of Heirtemann's telephone calls over a period of some six months. But, he added, the wiretap service was largely a waste of money...
...memories will differ in detail, they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
Numerous admirable characters visit Gary's House. There is Captain Scoop -such a hell of a dainty guy (by a boy's standards) that he refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator...
...trusted staff officers drew up operations plans for dealing with a revolt by i) civilians, 2) the air force, 3) the navy, or 4) the air force and navy together. Eight men alone knew of the existence of these plans, kept in four sealed envelopes in a locked desk drawer in the War Ministry...