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...massive mountain of a woman, with crinkly brown hair, wide eyes and billowing chins. She lumbered among tier disciples in a dirty wrapper, fumbling endlessly in the tobacco pouch from which she rolled her cigarets. Again & again she was caught red-handed in chicaneries that would have made a carnival rifter blush...
F.D.R. without Applesauce. As the book begins, this global Rover Boy is tête à tête with brackish Pierre Laval, who confides: "Money ... is like toilet paper, when you need it you need it bad." With this pearl rattling in his diplomatic pouch, Lanny leaves for London. He has to get a wiggle on because Upton Sinclair wants him 1) to take in the blitz, 2) to get back to F.D.R. in time to ram through the destroyer deal. He does both, easy as falling off a green baize table, and Roosevelt admiringly admits: "I need...
Like most Soviet diplomats, Ambassador Novikov, 43, was little known outside the marsupial pouch of the Kremlin. He had first emerged in 1943, as minister to Egypt. While in Cairo he negotiated Soviet recognition of new regimes in Syria and Lebanon after junketing incognito through the Levant. An occasional concertgoer with his handsome wife, Lydia Ivanovna, he has an embassy reputation as an expert at chess...
...attacks on Reuther had come from all sides. Cried Thomas, in between chaws of Mail Pouch: "If Reuther is elected president I think he will try to lead the U.A.W. into the American Federation of Labor. . . . The auto workers can look forward to the finest dictatorship the union has ever seen." Reuther dismissed this as "the ranting of a desperate...
Bang-Up Blend. In Nylstroom, South Africa, a habitual smoker absently dropped a .22 cartridge into his tobacco pouch, later filled and lit his pipe, puffed contentedly until the pipe abruptly and noisily vanished, and a small round hole appeared in the roof...