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Churchill proposed "a conference on the highest level . . . between the leading powers, without delay. There should be no rigid agenda, jungle of details or armies of officials. The conference should be confined to the smallest number of powers and persons possible. There should be a measure of informality and a still greater measure of privacy and seclusion...
...Call. Billy Ford, 28, is the irrepressible kid brother. He is the smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), and his wiry, 150-lb. frame is full of bounce. He not only has Old Henry's mechanical flair but his passion for collecting (he owns 200 old-fashioned guns). He is married to Martha Firestone, granddaughter of Harvey
...Lent, 55, formerly a chief statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell how they should be doing (Californians are the biggest spenders, New Englanders the smallest). When one game starts to lose favor with Harold's clientele, it is moved to a more advantageous spot in the building; when a dealer's take varies too much from the norm, he is immediately investigated...
...never bustles, but she is constantly busy. Her calm demeanor almost never deserts her. When she is displeased, her expression telegraphs the clue: her warm smile vanishes, is instantly replaced by a gelid stare. She is never fussy, but her eye and ear catch the smallest details. Last month, when the old Federal Security Agency was officially christened the Department of Health. Education and Welfare and she was sworn in as Secretary, Oveta went immediately to a White House telephone to call her office. She noted with satisfaction that the operator promptly chirped "Health, Education and Welfare" instead of "Federal...
...well-read moppets know, the smallest and bravest of the twelve little girls was Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans' 1939 picture-and-verse classic told how Madeline came triumphantly through one of the most delightful appendectomies in literature. It also made his heroine's name a household word with a host of youngsters and their elders, who, having to read the thing aloud night after night, found grown-up delight in Bemelmans' warmly colored fantasies of Paris...