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...great friend, CBS Funnyman Arthur Godfrey, as Defense Department representative to the President's Psychological Strategy Board. Wilson finally surrendered to White House pressure and named Kyes instead of Godfrey, but he muttered grimly, in retreat: "No columnist is going to run the Department of Defense." He was livid with anger eleven weeks ago, when Drew Pearson published the full text of a letter which Wilson had sent to the service secretaries under the classification "secret." Wilson's reaction was to order and enforce a long-needed tightening of Defense Department security. Circulation of documents was greatly restricted...
...contemporary abstractionists showing at Venice, there are a handful of clever artists. Stuart Davis, for one, soups up the American pavilion with designs as piercing and brassy as a Louis Armstrong high note. Lording it over the British pavilion are Graham Sutherland's pictures of what look like livid innards strung up on brambles. Derived from Picasso's "Tomato Plant Period" of a decade ago, they are equally forceful and unpleasant...
...somehow not altogether laughable national hostess - and on through the accelerating days when she became the galloping delegate of the New Deal and advocate of its social (and socialistic) suggestions - her calmly ladylike assumption that she is on the side of the reforming angels has turned her opponents livid with impotent and incoherent fury. They are positive that something about her is just plain wrong, but they can't quite put their finger on it. In their phrase (severely edited), she doesn't make sense. One of her favorite expressions, which appears often in her conversation...
...generally shrewd outlook on the world, the influential Washington Post (circ. 187,555) has navigated its approach to Far Eastern affairs by two bright beacons. One is Editor Herbert Elliston's livid hatred of Chinese Nationalist Leader Chiang Kaishek. The other was his admiration and respect for Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who had given every sign of sharing the Post's views on Chiang...
...Communist lawyers were livid. One shouted: "It's unbelievable. Here is the Soviet Union tried by a Spaniard. An unheard-of shame" The court ordered him ousted. Another Red lawyer resorted to smearing...