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Sometimes an offhand remark is revealing, sometimes misleading. I hope the latter is true of a comment by our new Secretary of the Treasury, quoted in your fine article [Jan. 26] on him. You report: "When he caught Mrs. Humphrey reading Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, he asked, with a wink, 'Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure and never amounted to anything...
Fascinating Rhythm (Freddie Hall; King). An uptempo, two-beat scramble through the old Gershwin tune. Vocalist Hall mutters his pattering lyrics in an offhand manner that is good for a chuckle...
...delegates, he couldn't think of "a single one that General Eisenhower has gained." He counted 56 he had picked up since Ike came home, and offhand made a surprising claim: "he already has about 603 or 604 delegates" (needed for nomination: 604). The only question left, said bland Bob Taft, is whether to shoot the works and take the nomination on the first ballot or hold back for a while. As he talked, neutral polls gave him about 470 delegates...
...jungle from San Benito on the west to Rama near the east coast. Then the war ended, and it was up to Congress to vote funds to finish the job. Year after year, Congress refused to meet an obligation that Roosevelt had contracted in his most offhand executive manner without consulting a single member of the Senate or House. Year after year, Tacho ponied up $30,000 a month to keep the road from going back to bush. This year Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller told the House committee: ". . . The terms of an executive agreement . . . will...
...When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer, who are already defendants in twelve libel suits for their offhand reporting (TIME...