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...seldom have five boys picked up so much character from a mother (and father) in private. They are independent and unselfconscious, too mature to expect Christmas more than once a year but too normal to settle for a single Halloween. Every Sunday evening they recite poems?from Milton to Hopkins???that they have learned during the week; on other nights they play chess and Monopoly with their father, and hold word contests with their mother. She has retired from "therapy games," and is planning a casual piece on how to lose quickly at checkers...
...Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins???being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike Hopkins are the people who like order...
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