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...height of Newport's "Golden Age," one of the resort's hostesses gave a dinner for 50 at which the center of the table was piled with sand. Each of the guests found a small, sterling silver pail and shovel at his place. At a given signal everyone dug frantically for thousands of dollars' worth of rubies, sapphires and diamonds buried in the sandpile...
...backed out again. Hercules was unwilling, after all. Less than a week after Federal Judge Thomas Murphy let it be understood that he would take on the job of sweeping out the littered corruption of Harry Truman's Administration, he threw up his hands, turned his back on pail and broom...
...from the bench. More important, Murphy had found out that he would not get the tools he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena witnesses, or to cite them for contempt if they proved balky. The job had been offered as a pail-and-broom detail, but what Tom Murphy needed was a bulldozer...
Pravda also peeked into the O.K.B. trade machinery division where "56 persons occupy themselves with pouring from one empty barrel into an empty pail and back again." This inspired Pravda to a new term for bureaucratic goldbricking: "Grinding water in a mortar...
...Stokes flew off from Teheran, the farewell was symbolically bleak. Save for the Minister of Roads and Communications, only bureaucratic underlings saw him off. The only official gift was a huge pail of caviar. Students standing by yelled, "Borol Boro...