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...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates (see INTERNATIONAL); here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales, I for one should, like to know what really...
Congress has never been on the air, but the House once had a short-lived loudspeaker system. Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas, before whom the microphone was placed, abolished it the second day it was in operation. Wishing a short snort after a rugged session, "Cactus Jack" heard that a member was about to deliver a "special order" speech. Said Speaker Garner, forgetting that his lightest word could be heard all over the chamber: "Now what is that son of a bitch going to talk about?" After adjournment, Speaker Garner told House electricians: "Get that damned thing...
From Dr. Dow, whose company, almost singlehanded, saved the U.S. from a critical magnesium shortage (TIME, March 20), came a resounding snort. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, after receiving the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists, he cried: "We are being warned against the dangers of freedom. ... All of which is rot. We are being told that ... we must ease out of controls and that chaos would follow their sudden ending. By the very nature of our present controls we cannot ease out of them. We can only ease into permanent control. . . . Whatever may be the seeming...
...hills near one country town, where mammoth green tanks snort around an ancient castle, and groves of trees hide hundreds of howitzers, U.S. newsmen gazed last week at a cool $4,000,000,000 worth of materiel...
This was the sort of talk the Hollywood pashas had heard for years from' fourth-raters and sour-grape sideliners. If a proved professional talked like that it was just a come-on. The proper reaction was either to snort your opinion and move off or to up your offer. They upped their offers-and clonked in mild faints again as Miss Bergman again said, no thank you. But this sort of talk suddenly dazzled David Selznick with a new, if incredible, idea. The idea was that Miss Bergman meant precisely what she said. She was genuinely less interested...