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...Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature-with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing...
There were times when the Journals bored Gide, long stretches that passed without entries: "I am keeping this journal without pleasure, as an exercise and without any care for the interest I may ever take in rereading it. . . . No more interest in keeping this journal. . . . I interrupt this journal, which is reduced to the dull notation of facts. Good [he wrote after 23 years of keeping it] solely as a way of getting into the habit of writing." In spite of flashes of cold, Gidean brilliance, most readers will probably feel the same way about the Journals...
...Passes, lived in the dingy, Left Bank Hotel de la Louisiane. Until recently, Sartre did most of his writing at a table in the Café de Flore. Since he became a celebrity, he works in the plushier Pont-Royal bar, where only well-heeled existentialists can afford to interrupt...
...left Russia when I realized that the Revolution had been converted into a matter of political exploitation."* The delegates reacted as if they had been lashed, and for 30 minutes shouts of "Viva la Russia!" rose to the roof. Then Balabanov continued: "You are wasting time trying to interrupt me. Communists and reactionaries have been trying to do that for 45 years, and haven't succeeded yet." Amidst a crescendo of cries of "Viva la Russia!" she concluded: "Viva il Socialismo Internazionale, viva il Socialismo Italiano...
...Britain's House of Commons, the art of conversation had hard going. Bookish Food Minister John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power) tried to interrupt a speech by another member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...