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McCarthy is sardonic, still of hand, low or octane, occasionally obscure, nearly always cucumber-cool. He is so relaxed that when he reached one stop in Los Angeles a little early, he gave his talk immediately and was on his way out when most of his listeners were coming in...
It was one o'clock in the morning, but Al Vellucci was still in fine form. "I'm sick and tired of playing; I'm sick and tired of paper; I'm sick and tired of blue-prints; I'm sick and tired of speeches. But I can stay here...
Nonetheless, Gould worked his way through Bates College in Maine. He anchored a debate team that won the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League championship against competition from Yale and Penn. He was president of the dramatic society and a varsity track man-for his 50-sec. time in the quarter-mile...
Not With It. There was also a succinctly honest and even witty tone to the eulogy by Jesuit Father Robert Gannon, president emeritus of Fordham University and author of Spellman's biography. "In life, our cardinal archbishop did not look like the great man that he was," said Father...
In spite of that stricture, Pompidou has managed to make himself noticed. As the chief Gaullist spokesman in the National Assembly, he has proved a masterly orator, demolishing the opposition by a mixture of hard economic facts with wit and elegant phraseology. Twice this year he has displayed these same...