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...motives of the Brewster investigation got lost in a Scotch mist, while front pages bloomed with a mixture of cheesecake and pious duckings about "babes, booze, and brass." Then came the names...
...pier watching the proceedings were two UNSCOP members, Chairman Emil Sandström of Sweden and Yugoslavia's Vladimir Simic, a Communist statesman who has an eye for drama and knows a cue when he sees one. "What can I think of all this?" asked Simic, pointedly pious. "It is the best possible evidence that we can have...
...Stein left Paris behind 20 years ago, has since lived in & about Florence. His typically salty reflection: "Some pious Catholic friends thought I ought to be grateful to God because I had during the German occupation and the fascist republic escaped all perils. I said to them that there had been 6,000,000 Jews murdered. Was I to be grateful to God that only 6,000,000 had been murdered...
Although his parents were pious Vaishnavas (a Hindu sect which strictly abstains from meat eating), Gandhi was goaded a few years later into sampling goat meat to emulate the British. "Afterwards," he reported, "I passed a very bad night. . . . Every time I dropped off to sleep, it would seem as though a live goat were bleating inside me; and I would jump up full of remorse...
Having approved this pious declaration in spite of all the hullabaloo, the committee went on to the next item of business: the question of Russia's professional "amateurs." Russia's well-paid athletes will be forgiven all the subsidies they have already received from their Government, providing they take no more between now and the 1948 Olympics...