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...experienced political writers who covered the Republican convention last week found themselves elbowed more closely than ever-both for space in the press section and space in their papers-by the trained and untrained seals of the "Ha Ha" and "I Was There" schools of political reporting. Some notable examples...
...British still thought they had good reason to be suspicious. For U.S. interests were handled by the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council with State Department approval. The F.B.P.C. was born because U.S. bondholders had taken a sound licking on a previous "settlement" of Brazilian bonds in 1934, the "Arañha Settlement...
...ha plan flopped because even the reduced interest was too high for Brazil's low exchequer. Later, Brazil resumed paying interest. But it was so low the bondholders complained and chivvied Brazil into the new plan, which covers $838,000,000 in dollar and sterling bonds. Under this plan all bondholders have a choice of 1) Option A, under which the face value of the bonds remains the same, but interest is slashed in half or more, 2) Option B, under which the value of the issues is cut from 20% to 50% and interest is reduced. But bondholders...
Gold Bars aside (Ha, Ha), though, the College Man in the Class of '45 has gotten the breaks. Proof, you say? Well, let's take that indispensable quantity, conviviality. Not everybody's got conviviality in the Army. Suppose you were manning an AA gun on a dreary building somewhere along Broadway or Fifth Avenue. Or suppose you were one of the lucky privates who beat the Meteorology racket. A guy I know did, and now he's buried away atop an office building on Third Avenue and 42nd Street in N. Y. What kind of conviviality is that...
...been in Russia, except for an occasional trip home, for the last eight years. Kiev-born, U.S.-raised and educated (University of Wisconsin), he was hired by NBC two and a half year ago, sight unseen. He is married to a Russian, speaks her language fluently, ha observed her people with equanimity. Some of his observations...