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John J. Pershing's adjutant, pooh-poohing a radio report that the 87-year-old general was critically ill, described the patient as "chipper and cheerful...
Many a Socialist pooh-poohed the result, but from the Manchester Guardian, Labor's wise friend, came a sharp, cautioning admonition: "An astonishing period of immunity from the natural ills of the political flesh is over. . . . Camlachie's chief warning is. . . that a government candidate cannot even rouse the slums...
...plant, it replied, in good Union Square dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers in earning everything from a loaf of bread to a suit (TIME, Dec. 29). Shisheyev had "analyzed" the figures quoted in a Voice of America broadcast; in pooh-poohing them, he showed an uncommonly glib familiarity with U.S. university bulletins and labor statistics...
Vital Ingredient. In a busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and large, pure mythology. . . . Any economic plan is workable just so long, and only so long, as it is sustained by faith...
...Jersey City, ex-Mayor Frank Hague, onetime political Pooh-Bah of New Jersey (and longtime embarrassment to Franklin Roosevelt), tossed some pearls to a gathering of rookie cops and firemen. "Stay out of the clutches of money lenders and don't get tied up with liquor," advised his ex-honor. "That's why I was successful. I had will power...