Word: drawerfuls
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...found the psychology he learned at Yale more valuable than his theology. In his study, filled with 700 books (there are 1,000 more in the adjoining bathroom), he sees an average of eight parishioners a day who come with problems. He keeps a fresh handkerchief in his desk drawer for those who cry. If he cannot straighten out a case, he recommends a psychiatrist...
...jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...
...conglomeration of top-drawer U.S. business thinkers last week addressed themselves to the state of U.S. business. Notable was the fact that in an unprecedented wave of speeches, the talk seemed to make unusually good sense. Three were particularly outstanding...
...last of the top-drawer bright young men of the New Deal packed up last week. Able, jug-eared Abe Fortas, 33, quiet No. i man to noisy Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, had asked the Army to take...
...might quarrel with it but few of them would deny that something ought to be done about civil-servantish BBC. Last week, as the time for renewal of BBC's Government charter neared, British voices spoke up and said so. BBC countered with what amounted to a top-drawer shakeup...