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...found no opulence either. "It had the flavor of a partisan company headquarters." Hero-Worshiper Bevan sketched a picture of Tito and his comrades of World War II days who are now government officials, sitting on the island in bunkhouse familiarity swapping crackerbarrel jokes and war memories. Bevan pooh-poohed the idea that Tito, approaching 60 and recovering from an abdominal operation, was past his prime. "His tanned, compact figure might have been that of a man twenty years younger...
...Nehru's faithful diplomatic servants-and one of Red China's most useful diplomatic tools-has been K. M. Panikkar, Indian Ambassador to Peking. He has frequently praised the efficiency of the Red regime, pooh-poohed even the Reds' own accounts of mass executions. With the official explanation that his wife is ailing, the Indian Foreign Office is recalling Panikkar, now reported greatly disillusioned with Communist China...
...executor of Kelly's will, ex-Sheriff Michael Mulcahy, and Kelly's tax adviser, a onetime city politico named Ed Gorman, pooh-poohed the widow's story. They had gone through the safe and the files in Ed's office only four days after his death, they said, and had found no big bundles of cash...
Part of being nice is being simple. Truman recalls a colleague who told a patient: "You have an area of stringy shadows from your hilar region extending to the base, and I can hear a few crackles in your chest." Says Truman: "Actually, 'Aba-ca-dav-snaba-pooh' would have conveyed as much meaning to the patient [who had a mild bronchopneumonia...
...Pooh with Alterations. Casual, wisecracking Michael Di Salle, 43, does not give off those portentous creaking sounds that Washingtonians expect from a big wheel in the Government. He does not look much like one, either. He looks more like a jolly caricature-a real-life Winnie-the-Pooh, with slight alterations made at Walt Disney's drawing board. He does not reach quite high enough (5 ft. 5% in.); he weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile...