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...satisfying work I've ever done." Last week, as he patched up staff quarrels over slugs of mekong (raw, locally made liquor), Berrigan could take consolation from the fact that the World was at least regularly in the black, would soon move into new quarters equipped with two secondhand typesetting Monotype machines...
...Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty could do very much to take the sensation out of the story...
Acrobatic Garnish. Neither is a secondhand gagster, and both would run at the drop of a joke book. Their humor is literate, and draws more heavily on the glories of the past than the gags of the present...
...jetmaker is happy about getting into the secondhand plane business, because that market is already poor. As recently as 18 months ago, demand was so strong that fully depreciated planes could often be sold for more than they cost; ancient DC-3s were bringing $140,000 v. an original cost of $85,000. But with turboprops and jets on the way, airlines lost interest in slower aircraft, and prices tumbled 40% to 60%. American Airlines, which has four DC-7s currently for sale and may have up to 25 more by July 1959, is asking...
...sick leave ("the National Elf Lark"), and before long Charlie beds down with Mariette in a field of buttercups. But it is the strawberry-sweet juice and joy of life with Pop and Ma Larkin that truly seduces Charlie. One day it is Pop piloting a real, if secondhand, Rolls-Royce into the yard and grandly announcing, "Ourn." Other times, it is Ma wolfing fish and chips and baying "Turn up the contrast!" toward the ever-playing...