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Salty Man. Strauss became Hoover's private secretary, accompanied him to Europe to help with the food relief pro gram. Strauss provides glimpses of a salty Hoover. "Young man," a British admiral said to Hoover, "I don't see why you American chaps want to feed those bloody Germans." Snapped Hoover: "Old man, we can' t understand why you British chaps want to starve women and children after they are licked...
...sensitivity of the technique extends to one-billionth of a gram. It is a marvel at detecting the presence of poison, easily spotting a thimbleful dissolved in ten tank cars of water. Neutron analysis can get along with specimens far smaller than those needed for conventional chemical analysis: a fragment of lint, a strand of hair, a fleck of paint will suffice. Happily, the radioactivity caused by the neutrons soon dies down, and once studied, the evidence can safely be brought into a courtroom...
Through the grey, smoke-stained wreckage he poked. "I recognize that tie," he said. "And that dress. That's Bob Pe-gram's tie, and that dress belonged to his wife Nancy." Years before, as a youth on his first date, Allen had taken Nancy out. He moved on. Here was a pair of children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from...
...Must" Bill. But despite the fact that it was a far cry from the much-needed overall tax reform that Kennedy has promised to send to Congress some time in the future, the bill was a Kennedy "must." The President's legislative pro gram has had rough going so far this year...
...Santa's "goddamned presents," isn't bad, but the style is ill advised. The whole idea of this love starved bobbysoxer craving Santa's own personal affections would have been much better with a Dodie ("Daddy, Daddy, I Want a Phone in My Room") Stevens approach. Margaret Gram, who apparently is a good singer, unnecessarily prostitutes herself to the idea that the female voice in popular music must lack all richness or color...