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Scowls & Love. Twelve minutes after Churchill began speaking, Ernest Bevin shuffled in. Churchill stopped, cast a radiant smile across the aisle. Said he: "I am very glad to see the new Foreign Secretary sitting on the front bench opposite. I would like to say with what gratification I learned that the right honorable gentleman had taken on this high office." Bevin scowled. Few can pay compliments so gracefully as Churchill; few can receive them as gracelessly as Bevin. Later, when Labor members teased Bevin about his fondness for Churchill, he growled: "But I love him. I love...
Last week the 46-year-old former Kentucky governor, former minor-league baseball player, got ready to give up his $10,000-a-year senatorial job. He had been made high commissioner of baseball at $50,000 a year (see SPORT). Baseball had gained a boss of radiant confidence. (Said Happy: "I may be in error, but I'm never in doubt.") The U.S. Senate had lost a minor politician...
...newald masterpiece is a polyptych of six hinged wood panels, each depicting scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...
Justice Jackson read the oath of office and radiant, robust Ed Stettinius, hand on Bible, boomed out a baritone "So help me, God!" Then the new Secretary characteristically thrust out a friendly big hand to the Justice: "Thanks, Bob!" He turned about and kissed his wife (too quickly for the photographers; he had to do it again for them). Soon after, he held a spot press conference, where he paid Cordell Hull what must have been his 200th tribute. He told the correspondents, in effect, that from now on, boys, whatever you want is yours. This was welcome news; State...
...only to be ignominiously bounced out of Marine boot camp because of his chronic hay fever. Burning with shame, he thinks of his father, Hinky Dink Truesmith, a hero who died gloriously at Belleau Wood on the day his son was born; of his mother, so proud and radiant, weeping on the station platform; of the brass bands tootling and banners proudly declaiming: "Like father, like...