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Said Walter Ross, appointed '4/3 new publisher: "We will have a definite editorial line to which our writers will hew." But getting all 363 to hew to the line would be the neatest trick of '47 or any other year...
Marshall scored his neatest diplomatic touchdown when Molotov accused the U.S. of holding back reparations from Germany. The Russian reported (from a document Andrei Vishinsky handed him) that Mr. John Green, of the U.S. Commerce Department, had publicly emphasized the great value of German patents which the U.S. had obtained...
...bristle with original insights, much painfully close research went into them: for "The Jacobins" he read the minutes of their meetings verbatim, and can produce the uncanny effect of conveying his audience into a hot Jacobin policy session. Which, with a group of non-illusioned Harvard men is the neatest trick of the term...
...woman can conceivably resist for long, isn't resisted for long by either Miss Williams or Miss Ball. He ends up married to Miss Williams, but not without a brief intermediate marriage of convenience, cooked up by Wynn, to the red-head. In one of the neatest speeches of the year, Miss Ball yells her red head off about being the goat of it all, and Wynn comes to the rescue, thus balancing off the foursome. The economic motive is present, too, in the form of a two million dollar libel suit which starts the whole thing going and disappears...
...return match at Oak Ridge, the C.I.O. was still counting on the lure of the 18½? pay raise it had already won in rubber, auto and steel. But it had still found no answer to the A.F.L.'s neatest trick: a $100-reward offer for proof that the C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers were not Communist-dominated. So far, there were no takers...