Word: drawerfuls
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...drawer messages were heavy with the economic lore behind the $3,750,000,000 credit and its wedded trade agreements. During the final five-day debate the House focused more attention on political expediency. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "The honorable gentlemen no longer have their minds on the arguments; they have their fingers on the popular pulse...
...amateur, each in his day had been king. Now, as professionals, everybody still wanted to be king. It took amateur tennis' top-drawer West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, N.Y. to get the pros all together last week. The royal dozen of pro tennis and some 40 smaller fry had it out at Forest Hills in the19th national professional tennis championship, and the first one that ever really amounted to anything...
...uneasy task of assembling the show was slender, studious Curator John Walker of Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...
...Costs, Up Prices. For the first time since the war began, top-drawer mass magazines were feeling the old summer newsstand slump. But giants like LIFE, Satevepost and McCall's were not. Neither were the glamor mags. Street & Smith's Mademoiselle and Charm, Walter Annenberg's Seventeen and Hearst's new Junior Bazaar were selling pellmell. Women's magazines have made spectacular advertising gains this year. So has the Post which picked up 29% while Atlas Corp.'s limping Liberty lost...
...your March 25 issue, you say: "U.S. Protestantism is seething. . . . Charges of too much politicking . . . have been openly leveled at the Church of Rome, not only in the Pope-hating Southern Bible Belt, but by top-drawer Protestant clerics and laymen as well...