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Little, egg-bald Speaker Sam Rayburn, cello-mellow with satisfaction, last week saw one of his predictions come true...
Alexander Woollcott's broadcast offered an illuminating glimpse of the oldtime Hotel Algonquin intellect at grips with the new world war. Puffed up with self-deprecation, mellow Mr. Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with...
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...Three years: This is the mellow age of infanthood. The child is "good company and likes to please." He walks with a destination in mind, is rather sure of himself, asks questions about social requirements ("Is it right?"), feeds himself without spilling, sleeps through the night without bedwetting. He would take full responsibility for the toilet if not for the "awkward posteriority of buttons and buttocks." He holds a crayon in his fingers, names what he draws, copies a circle, matches three color forms. He can run, ride a tricycle, put on his shoes ("not always on the correct foot...
...Harrison had been elected to the House from his native Mississippi, after eight years had graduated into the Senate. The Republicans then ruled the roost, and Pat Harrison, better than any other, showed how a politician can be effective though in the minority. Tall, lazy, mellow-voiced by nature, he was a gadfly in the Senate, deriding, denouncing, destroying the pretensions, incompetence and mistakes of the Republicans...