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...Monday luncheon at plush Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
...three days the filthy, ancient city shook as shell after shell poured into some of the most congested areas on earth. Hundreds of Arab dead lay in the bazaars and narrow streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S.-built Baltimore bomber flew overhead, dropped a few bombs. After the Senegalese had done their work with machineguns and mortars, they pillaged the shops and bazaars, taking radios, scarce food and scarcer clothing...
There, in the red plush seats, was Dumbarton Oaks and all the hope that may be in it. There, in the eminent flesh, were all the big words and the cloudy labels: General Assembly, Security Council, Court of International Justice, trusteeships, multilateral and unilateral, collective security...
Molotov came at last (see below), in due course took his allotted red plush seat in the hall, and with all the others surveyed the stage...
...usually is when sitting on his park bench in Washington, D.C., "in" to reporters. He would talk to only one: a man from Stars & Stripes. Corporal A. Victor Lasky and Baruch sat chatting together for a while, continued the conversation in Baruch's plush Claridge suite. When the phone rang (it was Churchill calling), Baruch, friend of the Prime Minister for 25 years, begged off for the moment. For Bernie Baruch had a point he wanted to get over to all G.I.s: quit worrying. After the war. there will be at least five to seven years' prosperity...