Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Maurice J. Tobin, Boston's popular ex-mayor and former governor of Massachusetts (1945-46). The one point the President had neglected was to get Tobin's acceptance in advance. A candidate for governor again, Tobin was in no hurry to make up his mind about accepting or rejecting the Cabinet job. Before he did either, he was going to have a talk with Harry Truman...
...wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...Stassen take the job? Not for political reasons, he said ("No, honestly, I don't think so"). But he does "bear in mind" that in Philadelphia he will be close to Washington and New York. He also warned the trustees that he would not give up his "vigorous interest in public questions." Beyond such distractions, the University of Pennsylvania could count on having an able and popular administrator as president-for at least four years, or until he got an offer he liked better...
Fortnight ago, after Mexico's magazine Manama had published a piece calling him a "musical monopolist" who didn't give young musicians a chance, Chávez roared back. Hot-blooded, he called his assailant "a veritable calumniator ... an infantile mind." Then, last week, two out of Mexico City's three leading critics jumped in. One called Chávez "a cacique [a corrupt political boss] who dominates all musical roads." Another came to his defense: "He's still the best...
...well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...