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...Russia WPB Boss Donald Nelson and the Russians fell madly in love. It was no picayune thing of languors, but a grande passion, a robust, full-stomached affair...
Various gentlemen in Company Baker who have felt the sting of H.T. Garvey's various talents are beginning to wonder where he spent his youth. First of all he picked out the handsome, robust and be mustached Wally Landis to spar with during those two weeks of boxing instruction...
Bishop Wand also has a robust sense of humor. One of his favorite stories is about himself. While Wand was Archbishop of Brisbane, he visited a young clergyman in the interior. The young man was unmarried, ate all his meals at a rather simple restaurant to which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said...
...Robust Republican Warren has passed other tests, too, in his eight months as Governor: he has cut taxes, set up a reserve to meet California's postwar problems, made many a progressive change in his State's criminal procedures. Many a GOPolitico was thinking of Governor Warren last week as a likely candidate for the Vice-Presidency-perhaps even as a dark-horse Presidential possibility. But Warren, elected with the help of 400,000 Democratic votes, has firmly refused to discuss his political future, and continues to speak of himself as California's non-partisan wartime executive...
...Willkie's book gives no impression of weakness, however, but is robust, fresh, courageous and hits hard. ... It brings forward the outstanding candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1944 in a very strong position. Let us hope he will give us an equally strong book on domestic problems before the next year...