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Cavendish Welles Cannon is one of the State Department's ablest, most diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference should be conducted on "technical" rather than political lines. The Communist majority rode roughshod over the contention...
Occupational Hazard. In Connersville, Ind., Postal Clerk Ben McKinney mislaid his glasses, ultimately got them back postmarked Fort Worth...
...Live in Peace (Lux-Pao; Times Film). The little village seemed to have been mislaid among the hills by careless History until the war of 1944 A.D. To Live in Peace records, in a high-keyed eclogue, one villager's confrontation of History...
...days later, Covre was called up by the price control board. His original applications had been mislaid. Would he make out two more? When he came back the next day with two copies, officials told him that a new regulation insisted on four. He must also bring price lists of some of his competitors to prove that his prices were not exorbitant (he was asking only $70 for both tables...
...Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued because they had ransacked the neighborhood for a Norwegian flag for the occasion...