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Watered Down. His anxiety was well founded. When the groggy debaters were shut off at 2:30 a.m., the Southerners began the final phase of their strategy: to soften the McConnell substitute bill even further with weakening amendments and then to vote for it. In the final showdown at the end of 15 hours they triumphed; the next morning the House perfunctorily approved the McConnell bill, 240 to 177. FEPC had been deprived of its teeth; if the bill became law (it seemed more probable that it would die in the Senate), it could be enforced only by mediation, conciliation...
...portrait of the proprietor hangs on a wall flanking the lobby elevator doors; framed there, with folded arms, tumbled hair and an expression reminiscent of both Maxie Rosenbloom and Barrymore's Hamlet, he stares austerely at all who enter. The portrait's eyes are said to soften slightly when McCarthy confronts it in the flesh...
...Easy Aces won some fanatically enthusiastic fans (including Comic Fred Allen and Humorist James Thurber), but it never climbed into the Hooperating Top Ten or struck most network executives as hilariously funny. When Goodman Ace, 50, was fired two years ago by CBS, a sympathetic vice president tried to soften the blow by saying : "I'll tell you a secret-we haven't got a man who understands comedy." Ace replied: "I'll tell you a secret-that's no secret...
Barton dropped the column before his election to Congress from Manhattan's Republican "silk-stocking" district (1937), has long itched to resume it. Still hustling and hopeful at 63, Bruce Barton says: "I sometimes wrote [when I was younger] as though I knew all the answers. The years soften and finally annul that idea...
...machine on the market which not only could stitch but could embroider, make buttonholes and darn socks. There was an announcement that the New York Central would soon have ready for wilting and near-sighted New York commuters 100 air-conditioned cars with fluorescent lighting and improved couplings to soften the shock of frequent stopping & starting. The rubber companies were testing an automobile tire that might run for 75,000 miles...