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Theron Lamar Caudle knew the friendliest people. Recently fired as head of the Justice Department's tax division, Caudle last week told a House subcommittee about some of his generous acquaintances. Punctuating his testimony with such exclamations as "Oh, my soul... Lord have mercy . . . Lord God almighty," Caudle writhed on the witness stand, lifting his hands above his head, joining them as if in prayer and rolling his banjo eyes upward. In a cotton-thick North Carolina drawl, he denied that he had done any tax favors for the men who treated him so generously...
...that he just wouldn't work hard to enforce the Kem amendment, which bans economic aid to countries shipping goods of war to Russia or her satellites. The Administration (which has no quarrel with the purpose of the legislation) argues that it is so unrealistically drawn that the friendliest, countries could not qualify for aid under its terms, and that if it were enforced, it would wreck the very nations on which the U.S. depends for military assistance. If the Kem amendment were literally applied, only Tito's Yugoslavia among European nations would be eligible...
...even the friendliest traveler had a stiff time getting into Russia. French Marquis Astolphe de Custine, warmly pro-Russian, was astonished at the questions he got at the frontier...
...urging of a nurse who is determined that the Scot shall die among friends, they manage to thaw him out into the friendliest man in the place. When Todd learns that he has been befriended out of pity for his imminent death, he lapses into his old bitter pride, and it takes all of the script's doing to bring him around in time for a lighthearted but misty-eyed ending...
...Park, Conn, and eased himself into the Buick beside his wife. On this rainy spring morning in 1947, as she did every weekday morning, Nancy was driving him to catch the 8:30 train to his Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget, and not be nervous about her driving...