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...There may be no meat on the platter, No coffee, nor butter for bread; It all seems a trivial matter So long as I have on my head A fluff and a puff and a whimsy Suggestive of Salvador Dali, Irrelevant, flaunting and flimsy, A symbol of feminine folly. . . ." Two publishers wanted to get in touch with Lamartine to persuade him to write a book. Newsreel photographers hammered at Editor Norman Cousins' door, demanding to know M. Lamartine's where abouts. Manhattan newsmen tried vainly to find him. A female reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal tried...
...accepted as practical politics. His scheme will protect those it covers from every economics stress from childbirth to burial insurance: maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, accident payments, allowances for educating children, and a dozen or so others. These boons are not just gravy to be sopped up frm the public platter. Every pension is contributory, to be paid for largely from payroll taxes borne by the workers themselves. Beveridge cannot be accused of purveying bread and circuses...
...headlines shrieked "UNIVERSITY DELAYS IMMEDIATE ACTION AS AMERICAS PREPARE TO FIGHT AXIS; 4 Jap Subs Sunk, Many Planes Fall Near Hawaii; College Defers Changes; Faculty Voices Opinion." Said Government Professor Bruce Hopper, now presumably some-where across the seas, "The Japs have delivered it into our hands on a platter. The hot-headed Japanese have played right into our hands. By this move she has written herself off in history as a great power." Claimed Pitirim A. Sorekin, professor of Sociology, "Personally, for many years I have been warning that Japan has been preparing, not only against Russia, but against...
...Pacific Relations was beginning when news of the attack broke. "There was dead silence for two minutes. In those 120 seconds, 80 different opinions were resolved. It was unanimously agreed, as one delegate put it, that 'Japan has handed America its long-needed unity on a silver platter...
...greatest upset apple-cart from the Harvard point of view was John Bonner's surprising win in the discus, the last event which decided the meet. Big Jack, who had never topped 142 feet in competition before, came through in fine style as he heaved the platter a nifty 153 feet, five inches, to take the event, and clinch the laurels for the team. His showing was the best example all afternoon of Jaakko's pre-meet prediction and generalization that "the harder the competition, the harder they will fight...