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...grueling assignment; the appointment of Marshall was "a reaffirmation of the tragic policy of this Administration in encouraging Chinese Communism." Taft was talking about Marshall's mission to China in 1946 to effect a truce between the Nationalists and the Reds-an errand that, though doomed from the start by the essential nature of Communism, was carried out so doggedly by Marshall that it left China naked to the Reds...
...Boston's Community Chest fund, hit him for a contribution. Smith was impressed by Kelley Anderson's background, and two years later Anderson joined New England as a director. Anderson, who first learned finance from his farmer-banker father, worked his way through college, then became an errand boy in an engineering firm because "there wasn't much choice about jobs...
Twisting and turning, she took her audience with her on her Errand into the Maze, the soul's fight against fear. After that one, Martha took seven curtain calls. But as she proceeded with her company into other labyrinthine concepts, such as Eye of Anguish and Cave of the Heart, the applause dwindled. At the finale, most of the bravos came from U.S. fans...
Novel No. 51 on Author Grey's production line, The Maverick Queen, follows traditionally slim, traditionally grey-eyed Nebraska Cowboy Line Bradway on an errand of justice to South Pass, tangles him up with the lady leader ("the Maverick Queen") of a gang of cattle rustlers whom he suspects of his pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face...
...Council constitution should build on the philosophy that the Council must not be a student government or a regulatory body or even an errand-running service organization, but simply an advisory group which can represent student opinion to University Hall. The best work done by the Council since the war has been advisory (the Poskanzer report on Harvard Education is a good example). The football ticket exchanges and forums have been useful, but they have terribly distracted the Council from its primary...