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...threat posed by Hitler's rise. He advocated and largely directed the American effort to gear for war. At the end of his career, he looked back with justifiable pride on the days when he helped procure everything from Spam to destroyers for Britain, and drafted the Lend-Lease Act. Then he had the tasks of financing the U.S. war effort-the biggest budgets in the nation's history up to that time-and of making plans for postwar measures to restore a viable international monetary system...
...signers were recruited by long-distance conference calls, linking student leaders in various parts of the country with those in Boston and New York. Some of the original 80 refused to lend their names because they found even the modified tone too harsh; others said they could not pretend to represent the opinion of their campuses, though very few disagreed with the fundamental premise that discontent was spurading...
...venture as producer and star, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, 37, braved the streets of Greenwich Village for a few location shots for Wait Until Dark, a melo- dramatic mystery that has her playing a blind girl terrorized by a couple of murderous junkies. On hand to lend civic punctilio to the occasion was New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 45, with his wife Mary. And since he'd left the keys to the city back at the office, His Honor gave Audrey a kiss on the cheek, while Mary Lindsay said placidly: "I think anything...
...faker strips such pieces with lye or paint remover; he refinishes them with stain, oil or varnish, sands their corners, and then "distresses" them with chains and mallets-that is, he gives them a good pounding to lend the battered allure of great age. The suspicious customer should examine the drawers of wooden pieces. Fakes are often hinged together by eight to ten machine-made dovetails; the genuine article has three to five irregularly shaped, hand-carved dovetails...
...intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame." The tumbling litanies lend a lively, mirthful twist to the songs' plaintive themes...