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...equal partnership to Charles Clegg and Lucius Beebe, and I would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made a note to this effect. It is rather mean to have him put up half the scratch or wampum for this property and then have it altogether attributed to his partner...
Under the title "New Scandal in Texas" [Dec. 26], you referred to "U.S. (for 'United Services') Trust & Guaranty." We have been informed by the Texas Insurance Department that the letters "U.S." in the title of the U.S. Trust & Guaranty Company do not mean United Services. Your reference has confused a number of the officers of the armed forces who are insured by United Services Automobile Association. This association is a large and financially strong insurance organization, which has been serving the commissioned and warrant officers of the U.S. armed forces for many years...
...Many Washington reporters interpreted the President's wording "chart out his own course" to mean that the President was charting out a strategy to drop Nixon from the ticket. Actually, Eisenhower neither reiterated nor withdrew from his stated position that he will endorse nobody for Vice President until he becomes the nominee...
Ordinary readers can get help and enjoyment from the traditional critic who tells what impression a poem makes on him, Muir said. They glean nothing from the critic who says the poem cannot possibly mean what it seems to, and then proceeds to explain...
Ulen told anyone who asked that his team couldn't possibly score more than 34 points, which would mean a 50-34 loss at best. This was clear to him from what he knew of his team and its times compared to Yale's. Harvard had one of the East's greatest teams ever, but Yale was stupendous. Therefore Harvard was the second-greatest...