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...like him very much." Shuman also liked Ezra Taft Benson, Eisenhower's controversial Agriculture Secretary, once called him "a very conscientious man." Bull-Voiced Orator. Agriculture Secretary Freeman is the sort of fellow who lives what he preaches. Every couple of hours he pours himself a big snort of milk -to soothe his spastic colon and, incidentally, to dramatize the benefits of dairy products. When he gets tired, Freeman's speech begins to slur-the lingering effect of a facial wound he suffered as a Marine captain on Bougainville. Doctors doubted that he would ever talk again...
...penny piece of chalk. Thus he began his celebrated two-year sojourn in happy isolation. Last week. 116 years later, Thoreau would have been able to find his clump of woods easily enough, but not necessarily the solitude to permit him to drive life into a corner. The snort and belch of automobiles punctuate the old serenity of Walden. and the yelps of children, followed by the cries of their parents, have all but enveloped the summer-soft days. Across the whole expanse of the U.S., the wildernesses where once only the hardiest of outdoorsmen trod now shuddered under...
Washington's response was a snort. Said a State Department spokesman: "I am impressed with the ingenuity of the Cubans in arranging a delegation with an American flag flying at its head. They neglected only one thing-to have them rush up a hill yelling 'charge...
...avid reader of TIME, and also one of the "angry school officials" who "snort" replies to the accusations of "bright-eyed kids," I found your Sept. 15 article concerning the high schools of Downey to be most revealing. Now I know, firsthand, why I shall never cancel my subscription to your magazine: What other publication offers so much entertaining reading without the intrusion of factual and accurate reporting...
Died. Edward Francis McGrady, 88, shrewd, head-banging labor-relations expert and strike-settling Government troubleshooter in both world wars, an F.D.R. crony who became a take-charge Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1937 (once provoking Boss Frances Perkins to snort, "Now, now, Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of Labor"); of advanced cerebral artery disease; in Newtonville, Mass. A onetime Harvard College boxing instructor, newspaper pressman, Massachusetts state legislator and A.F.L. Washington lobbyist (1919-33), McGrady left fulltime Government service in 1937 to become an RCA vice president, stayed on as a director until last year...