Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MULTITHANKS FOR A FINE PIECE ON NEWSMEN IN CARACAS [Feb. 3]. HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE INACCURACY WHICH MUST BE STRAIGHTENED OUT BECAUSE IT REFLECTS UNFAVORABLY ON CORRESPONDENTS. THE LIQUOR BAN WAS DEFEATED TOO, AND AT LEAST TWO TIME AND LIFE OPERATIVES CAN TESTIFY THEY ATTENDED POST MORTEM SESSIONS ON REVOLUTION WITHOUT ANYBODY'S THROAT OUTDRYING...
George Docking, the genial, 53-year-old governor of Kansas, and his wife Virginia had just finished a rousing round of duplicate bridge and a lively tournament post-mortem of the play over coffee and ice cream in the Hotel Kansan snackshop, the Purple Cow. It was past midnight in Topeka as Democrat Docking paid the bill, escorted Virginia to his state-owned Cadillac outside, helped her into the car, slid into the driver's seat and purred off into the night...
Russia's Sputniks have produced one of those times, as was evidenced last week by an attack of jumpiness-to-conclusions that hit two U.S. wire services, and by a statesman's post-mortem on Western reporting of last month's NATO conference...
...hour-and-a-half meditation in the monastery gardens was like all his actions of his week of triumph: he kept a discreet silence about his intentions, as is the victor's prerogative. The opposition Socialists, on the other hand, might be expected to hold a noisy post mortem to complain about the lackluster campaign by roly-poly Erich Ollenhauer, but the important Hamburg state election comes up in November, and if the Socialists are to win it, they must seem to be united...
...taverns, and when Palmer died without a struggle, they cried, "Cheat! Twister!", for they had come to see him kick at the end of the rope. Britain's Robert Graves, poet, novelist, fabulist and all-round man of letters, has now issued a lively post-post-mortem report on the whole affair...