Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentenced last week by a federal court in Tacoma, Wash, on six counts of income tax evasion: Dave Beck, 64, longtime Teamsters Union president, nudged-from office by Jimmy Hoffa in 1957, and in trouble with the law ever since. Sentence: five years' imprisonment and $60,000 fine, plus $10,961.52 in court costs. Said U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt in a lecture from the bench: "Mr. Beck plundered his union, his intimate associates, and, in some instances, his personal friends-most of whom quite readily would have given him anything he asked...
...Forces] who . . . believe that in their service, in their own function, lies the safety of the U.S. Someone has to make the decision. That happens to be the Commander-in-Chief. Now, and I must say this, and I think possibly this is the first time that I have ever violated my own conception of humility and modesty: I think I am more able than any one of those [Pentagon chiefs] ... to make an overall decision on behalf of the U.S. in this vital matter, because I again assure you that just . . . spending money does not make us stronger. Indeed...
...quotation from Lord Leighton, a British painter: "There is another man inside me, cynical, blase, critical." Behrman dramatized the story in three weeks while unemployed and casting about desperately for ideas; produced by the Theatre Guild, it was an overnight success, and Behrman has been a playwright ever since...
...prove his contention that there is no such thing as "no time for comedy," Behrman cites the story of Sigmund Freud's reaction when his apartment was looted by the Nazis. "How much did they take?" Freud asked. "$200." "That's more than I ever got for a visit," he replied...
...Behrman's favorite stories about Maugham concerns a visit to the estate of an American sculptress. The party came upon a gleaming white block of Italian marble, and Maugham exclaimed to the hostess, "That's the best thing you've ever done!" "But," the artist protested, "I haven't even started; it just came over from Italy. What on earth did you think it was?" "The Immaculate Conception," Maugham replied...