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Less than an hour later, the President slipped into the penthouse. By then old Charley Ross, his press secretary, had heard enough good news to knock off for a nap. Ross got a rude awakening. Harry Truman was bouncing up & down on his bed, beaming happily. He told Ross-who had never really believed that his boss had a chance of election-that it was coming out just as he had always said it would. Harry Truman threw back his head and laughed and laughed...
...mother was kind in a very strict way and every inch a lady. In the Oppenheimer household, it was possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
...sooner made my escape into the world, I should have grown hard and rough, and been covered with earthly dust, and my heart might have become callous by rude encounters with the multitude. But living in solitude till the fullness of time was come, I still kept the dew of my youth and the freshness of my heart. I used to think I could imagine all passions, all feelings, and states of the heart and mind; but how little did I know! Indeed we are but shadows; we are not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real...
...chaotically cluttered with papers, overflowing ashtrays, strange native instruments and dozens of hats (he collects them). There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in a corner with a phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once-with hands, feet and mouth...
...Express-a career terminated by a typically Waughlike misunderstanding. One day Editor Beverley Baxter saw Evelyn lolling in a chair in the reporters' room, and asked him his name. "Waw," was the answer that reached Baxter's ears, and, thinking that the young man was making a rude noise, the editor fired...