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...discreet. Plaid is in taste, with reservations, or throttle his reticence with a sports shirt of grey, blue-grey, green-grey, or flesh--add a string tie. If he's still bashful get him to try a blue suit with a white collar, open at the neck, and a pin-stripe blue shirt. Hide everything under a rumpled macintosh for the final surprise...
Korea. Truman had tried to pin on Eisenhower, then Army Chief of Staff, the blame for the 1947 recommendation to withdraw troops from Korea. Any opinions rendered by the Chiefs of Staff, said Ike, were military. The U.S. decision to withdraw was political. "There were some things back there in 1947 that I didn't foresee would happen," said Ike. Among them: that the Secretary of State would make public to a potential enemy the decision that Korea was not in the U.S.'s vital defense perimeter...
...easy trick, especially when it has to be repeated. In general, modern novelists are notable for a feebleness, sinking sometimes almost to impotence, in this kind of creative invention. Even Hemingway has created only a type, the Hemingway hero (his women, also a type, hardly vary from pin-up girl to succuba...
...with the Dever pin watched the police take the barriers apart and push them into their paddy wagon. "Damn good speaker," he said. "And damn decent. Makes a good impression. And a very courteous crowd, too. It's good that they gave him a hearing. He's a nice young man. Last time one like that came down here, it was Coolidge. They threw rocks. And then this Lodge's father was down once too. A very distinguished old gentleman. It's good to let people hear for themselves. I'm very glad they didn't throw rocks...
...Johnathan Edwards master, Robert D. French, has announced that a tie-lending bar will be set u pin the college's dining hall for sartorially incomplete students. Said French of the new plan; "It is for the benefit of those who own no neckties or do not care to expose their own elegant cravats to the hazards of their table manners...