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...House in 1957, "Lib" Libonati has been known only for his devotion to the bidding of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley and as a master of the malapropism-he once welcomed autumn as the time when "the moss is on the pumpkin." Gingerly handling the prickly political pear that the civil rights bill had become, Manny Celler needed someone to make the necessary Judiciary Committee motions to delete the toughest sections of the subcommittee package. He picked Libonati, partly because of Lib's record of strict party obedience, partly because Lib did not need to worry about political...
...ahead, Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson felt the 18th to be "the Assembly of opportunity." Pearson backed Secretary-General U Thant's request for a permanent peace-keeping force composed of specially trained units from contributing nations. "The Scandinavian member states have shown the way," said Pear son, adding that a similar Canadian force was now available...
...founders of the Bridge were largely self-taught and at first they tended to paint rather alike. They all did carmine-red houses, crimson trees, ultramarine roads, faces that were part chrome yellow and part cobalt blue. They had no liking for the impressionists, who saw a pear in a bowl as having many different shades of green. "For us," says Heckel, "it was a green pear-bang-in a red bowl." They also scorned impressionist garden paintings that "could just as well have been shifted a few yards to the right or left in the choice of the scene...
weeds are the chinless boys who go to deb dances in England, affairs that a pear-shaped young English authoress describes as hell's boring. Her book is kind of, too. (See BOOKS...
...much really. Me writing a book I mean. It isn't as if I had any talent or something. But what's a girl to do. There I was twenty and pear-shaped and daddy a noble lord. Only not a rich one. Lord and Lady Clanmorris are what my parents really are. Only really they are writers too. Named Bingham like me. They live in London. And I couldn't type or do shorthand very well really. So I started this corny book. All about...