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Senator Tom Connolly, fancy-dressing, fancy-swearing Democrat from Texas, uttered a prosaic "damn" on the Senate floor, got tutted by Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, ex-undertaker, who considered the word "beneath the dignity of the Senate." Connally promptly withdrew the word ("I know my colleagues are delicate"), swore he was just quoting somebody else, and thus "it wasn't my word...
...prosaic observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerful, angry American, name of Robert Jackson, of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
Wild Bill Donovan wanted the salvageable parts of this machine to get independent status, under the President. Last week he could settle for its peacetime placement beneath Jimmy Byrnes' wing. But his own reconversion to the law would seem prosaic...
...arrange for this printing, Bernard Clayton (who heads the Far-Eastern edition we print each week in Manila) had entered Tokyo a week ahead of our troops. His arrival on the electric train from Yokohama was prosaic enough, but a few days before the Japanese shore batteries had fired on the plane in which he flew up from Okinawa to be among the first Americans landed in Japan...
...held up to his staff the one perfect American Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO FRONT DOOR. Porter, who wrote that headline, says: "Nowadays we don't nail people's heads to doors - unless, of course, it happened." Instead, Porter has found that the prosaic household hints in the back pages draw better. Best draw of all is plastic surgery. Says Porter drily: "From where I sit, it seems that no one in America likes his own face." Hearst's Concern. The American Weekly's world of tomorrow probably will never stray...