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Blue Eyes. Then into the committee room strode a big, tweedy, pipe-smoking man. He looked like the editor of a college press. He was Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist Party. Appearing at his own request, he was armed with a 21-page statement. He had scarcely settled himself in his chair before he was in trouble...
...Ajax Cassidy (Peter Donald) is a tuberculous, growler-rushing, clay-pipe Irishman who thinks he is "not long for this worrld." He is also the newest and least-developed of Fred's characters, but as Donald reads the role, it contains some winning bits of brannigan. A favorite Cassidy wheeze: having resolved to give up the stuff, he puts himself to the test by trying to pass Kerrigan's Kosy Korner without dropping in. After a desperate struggle he makes it-and promptly returns to Kerrigan's to celebrate his moral victory with a snootful...
...fashioned apartment (sometimes called la boulangerie) in Montmartre was a musical rendezvous of Paris. There, with the framed visages of Liszt, Rubinstein, Beethoven and Stravinsky staring from the walls, students gathered every night to talk, listen, play and, on occasion, eat. The two pianos and pipe organ in the apartment were seldom silent...
...Friday is an experienced young journalist named George Trevor Wykeham Gauntlett, a half-English, half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention and the Washington disarmament talks. They were...
Wisconsin's common folk, with an air of affectionate proprietorship, called him "the old man." They liked to think of the big, rumpled man in the governor's chair, puffing his pipe, nibbling cheese, his voice rumbling, his massive head wagging like an amiable St. Bernard's. Some might disagree with his basically conservative Republicanism. But everyone agreed that Governor Walter Samuel Goodland was honest to the point of truculence. He was also, at 84, the oldest state governor in the nation's history...