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There was standing room only in the public galleries. As the lanky, sandy-haired Finance Minister unfolded himself and got to his feet in the House of Commons, members thumped their desks in applause. James Lorimer Ilsley nervously cleared his throat, picked up a sheaf of notes, took off his glasses, put them on again, and waded into a 10,000-word speech telling what the coming year's tax picture would be. It proved to be good...
...party in the moonlight, a new line came to him: "There are strange things done in the midnight sun. . . . Though I did not know it [The Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type, were so enthusiastic that the publisher...
...nearly midnight in London. Sentry-boxed Downing Street lay quiet save for the tramp of guards. Inside No. 10 a taut secretary hurried to the Prime Minister's door, knocked impatiently, turned the glass knob. Winston Churchill stood beside his desk, reading a sheaf of reports. The secretary handed him a note. "Sir," he quavered, "President Roosevelt died a short time ago." The Prime Minister's face paled. He sat down, motionless for five full minutes. Then he lifted his head, with the heaviness of a man who is suddenly very lonely. He whispered: "Get me the Palace...
...tall, chin-chopper boss, Chester Bliss Bowles, walked up Capitol Hill last week to ask Congress to extend OPA for another 18 months. As usual, Adman Bowles was armed with a great sheaf of adman's charts-150 of them-to show what OPA had been doing. As usual, he was urbane, softspoken, deferential. Only one note was missing in the interview. The rabbit-punching truculence with which Congressional committees have usually greeted OPAsters in the past was gone. This time the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee was on Chester Bowles's side from the beginning...
...daily routine is similarly, and deceptively, simple. He gets to the office at 9:30 a.m., goes back to his Georgetown home for lunch, takes an hour's nap, and is back in the office by 3, remaining until 5:30. Sometimes, but not very often, he takes a sheaf of papers home at night. He has only one fixed appointment a week: the Wednesday morning meeting of the Munitions Assignments Board. But even though he is chairman, he often skips that. He usually sees the President daily, although there are days when they merely talk by telephone...