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...fellow workers from The Optimist's Good Morning, a devotional hand-me-down from the late John D. Rockefeller. One of her favorite passages begins: "With this new day, O God, let some new strength be mine." The staff of the National Council of Negro Women says a fervent amen. Though she was 71 last week, Mary Bethune still runs them ragged...
...Patterson had a lot in common with Franklin Roosevelt-a rich man's socialism, an appetite for power, a trust in a Big Navy-but from being a fervent supporter, he turned to a bitter enemy when Franklin Roosevelt went international. Joe Patterson was a good hater. His hatred for Roosevelt became almost pathological; and anything went, from cracks about Roosevelt's lameness to Poison Penman John O'Donnell's leers at Roosevelt's Jewish advisers. New York City's millions continued to return landslide votes for Roosevelt-and to read the Daily News...
...confident advertising man. There you can find your choice of a "brand-new bathtub for $45"; a "120 Bass M. Hohner accordion with a double octave bar"; "two pairs of 9 short nylons for 9½ mediums"; "four well-bred grey-striped kittens"; a part-time maid, or a fervent plea for a hard-to-get copy of Tubbs Analytics...
...When the U.S. Army brought him to Mondorf Interrogation Center, he was clad only in lace panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed daily in his cell. On the witness stand he was fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once did he show a flicker...
...friend of ours several times removed decided that there was nothing Ted Williams had that he didn't have but a 336 lifetime batting average. In a fervent burst of House patriotism, he cut his afternoon class and panted down to Soldiers Field to shag flies for the Adams House nine...