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...Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., they X-rayed Franklin Roosevelt's chest. It was a mild case of bronchitis, going into its third week. To reporters, the President pooh-poohed his illness, continued to smoke from his long cigaret holder, continued to cough softly but persistently. Last week...
...richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...
...Yorker Thurber is known as Old Thurber. He pooh-poohs the tendency of art critics to breathe his name with that of Matisse and Picasso. But his drawings have long been taken seriously by advanced students of fantasy, and one sketch of a lady's alcoholic visions was hung (under the heading of Miracles and Anomalies) at the outstanding Fantastic Art-Dada-Surrealism show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Old Thurber, anything but pompous, once described himself as follows...
Thursday. Principal Herbert W. Smith of Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...
Rubber Director Bradley Dewey, Jeffers' successor, promptly retorted that these were needless worries. He said steps were being taken to supply the needed manpower and cord, declared his tests showed the new tires would be good enough. Officials pooh-poohed an Associated Press report that Indiana highway police had found synthetic tires faulty and had to discard a third of them after 1,500 miles because they developed heat blisters. The Indiana tires, said the officials, were defective early products. Said Dewey: "We are now producing synthetic passenger-car tires which, if driven at legal speed, will stand...