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...first two years," says Banker Meyer, "I made every mistake in the book." Then he was persuaded to take on some top professional journalists. As editor he hired able, literate Felix Morley;* as managing editor he got flashy, temperamental Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones from the Minneapolis Journal. Morley, who came to the Post from the Brookings Institution, took editorial writers out of their ivory tower, sent them out to dig up their own facts, soon made the Post's editorial page the best-written and best-read in Washington. The Post supported Roosevelt in most of his foreign policies...
...London, bulky British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who picked up a few prizes on Broadway for his 1948 Edward, My Son, was in no mood to return the compliments. Said he at a dinner at the Theater Arts Club: "The New York theater is hag-ridden by directors. Scene painting is a lost art ... Walter Winchell and about five like him decide the tastes of the American 'people...
...occasionally turn out such little books as Trivia and More Trivia, in which he rubbed his language to a fine sheen and tried to distill the essence of his new-found cultivation into concise paragraphs. Smith's lapidary phrases were admired by such tweedy literary folk as Christopher Morley, but, reread today, they seem rather cold and feeble...
...Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. When nobody at the Bangalore garrison could tell him what the word "ethics" meant, he began to read in search of answers. It was a long quest, for Churchill was to spend his life in politics and to learn with his friend John Morley that "those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other...
After work, St. Laurent spends the evening on state papers, listening to the radio, or reading (usually newspapers and magazines). Sometimes he works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside...