Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Darby, who has visited just about every state in the Union on presidential tours: "I consider myself one of the country's foremost authorities on airports, railroad stations, hotel lobbies and auditoriums. It will be nice to learn what surrounds these things in the Midwestern states...
This was unforgivable. "In those days," recalls De Sapio bitterly, "the Irish leaders used to give the Italians important-sounding jobs-without power-to keep them happy; something with a nice fancy-sounding title, like Superintendent of Sanitation, that an Italian would love." But district leader? Never. Tammany's executive committee refused to seat De Sapio. When De Sapio's followers picketed both the hall and Finn's office, Finn cried foul. "It's in line with all the tactics they've been using," he said. Then, darkly: "I might even say it smells strongly...
Boars & Bills. At the second barn the President watched a Berkshire boar, the gift of the Glenwood All Breed Swine Association of Glenwood, Minn., being unloaded from a trailer. "Hey, he's a nice-looking fellow," said Farmer Eisenhower, as the pig romped out. "There's your new home, Butch; go right in." Butch waddled into the pig pen. When photographers asked the President to call the pig, he' obliged with a fine Abilene-style hog call. "Sooooooey, soooooey, hoh, peeg, peeg, peeg," he crooned. Then he glanced at his watch. "I better get back to work...
...immutable as the Newsman's Law, which requires a press card in every hat), the story was, of course, a tearjerker: a talented jazz pianist discovers that he has tuberculosis but wants to die beating out his rhythms in cellar joints instead of getting cured in a nice, clean sanatorium. The novelty lay in the fact that Bob Crosby and his Bobcats not only played their instruments but also tried to be players. What was gained in verisimilitude was lost in the wooden-Indian school of acting: Crosby, in particular, delivered each line with a granite impassivity that...
Actually, in spite of some nice evocative writing about Paris and Paris types, it is only half there...