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...took Republican Whip Joe Martin's advice, kept his nose clean and worked hard. Though he counted himself a conservative, a protectionist and an isolationist, he hewed to no strict party line, voted "aye" on a number of F.D.R.'s New Deal programs. He voted against both Lend-Lease and extending the draft, but he changed his mind in September 1941, when he exhorted the Congress to show a ''unity of purpose'' behind the President. To disavow or oppose F.D.R.'s policies now, cried Dirksen, "could only weaken the President's position...
...added to both in 1939 when he and his own nine-piece band cut Body And Soul, one of the most famous jazz disks ever recorded. Hawkins stayed as active in the bopping '40s as he had been in the swinging '30s, which would seem to lend weight to his theory that "there has been no evolution in jazz; it's the same old stuff interpreted and played differently. Laymen make a big deal about such-and-such a style, but it's all a matter of what a man is thinking...
Sorcerer's Apprentice. Enthusiast Menotti agreed, and Carandente went to work. Britain's Henry Moore promised to lend his totemlike Glenkiln Cross and a bronze Reclining Figure. Top Italian sculptors like Manzu and Marini were easily persuaded to lend important pieces...
...solidarity, even offered to let the U.S. set up military bases on the island "when and if it pleases." British and U.S. aid programs are already in the works for housing and water projects: the U.S. will put up $2,200,000 as a loan, and the British will lend another $3,700,000 in cash and hand over some War Office land...
...gather them, Seattle engaged the dean of U.S. museum directors, 72-year-old William M. Milliken, who formerly ran the Cleveland Museum of Art. He had no easy job. Traditionally, museums are reluctant to lend to fairs that have nothing to lend back, and fearing loss or damage, they dislike seeing their prized possessions housed in temporary fair structures where adequate police and fire protection is difficult...