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...week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists in barrooms chanting, 'Andate via, gli stranieri!' But then, the monolingual U.S. tourist might never suspect that those musical words mean, 'Go away, foreigners...
...cling to his last good suit, and one of the most powerful arguments against another loan has been the uncertainty that it (or the first one) could be repaid. Furthermore, proud Britons, if they must ask it at all, would far rather ask it as a helpful stimulus to quicker recovery than as a desperate last resort...
...poet," sighed Adolf Dehn. "You don't make money at it." For 20 years his lithographs of round-bellied priests, frock-coated bankers, mountain landscapes and Midwestern barnyards had been finding their way into museums and the portfolios of connoisseurs. But stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn wanted a quicker and handsomer welcome from fortune than Ralph Blakelock got (see above...
...tactician (once the game has started), Durocher is unsurpassed; as a yearlong strategist, says Rickey, "he ain't." Durocher has an instinct for knowing just what his players can do in any situation. He yanks pitchers quicker than any other manager, and the results usually bear out his judgment. Pete Reiser stole home so often on Durocher's orders (seven times in 1946) that rival pitchers got the jitters every time he reached third base. Brooklyn scored more runs last season on squeeze bunts than any other club. Says Leo: "I play hunches . . . maybe other managers are afraid...
Lombardo has always walked the tightrope between the Communist Party line and Mexican nationalism, and verbally has always managed to reconcile the two positions. In general, however, he has been closer to the Moscow line, and quicker to take it up, than the Mexican Communist Party itself, which as a result has had to go through repeated painful purges...