Word: statesmanly
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...81st birthday in Manhattan, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch posed beside a mammoth birthday cake ("I can't tell you who sent it. The same person who has sent it to me for 50 years would be very annoyed with me if I told who it was") and gave some advice for the troubled times: "Don't bellyache, Get out and work-this country will pull through...
...discuss in your July 23 issue the presence and absence of Washington's dentures in Gilbert Stuart portraits of that famous statesman. To settle an argument, please let me know what Washington's dentures were really made...
Morgenthau directs his most bitter criticism to appeasement on the home front. "Sometimes Mr. Acheson acts as a great statesman, and sometimes he acts as a member of the Truman administration. Appeasing MacCarthyism domestically does not pay anymore than foreign appeasement does. Acheson operates under political obstacles and does things he can't approve of intellectually. The administration underestimates the people and fails to take them in its confidence...
...during the visit the paper sought to out-adjective one another in describing MacArthur. He was "America's greatest soldiers statesman," and "like some sequoia, calm and proudly decked." Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham wrote that the general and his wife were "fresh as flowers in a florist's refrigerator" and noted, "If every wife were as pretty, as trim and as charming as Mrs. MacArthur, despite Corregidor, Australia, Japan, etc., They wouldn't have to resort to dreaming...
...British press, glumly conditioned to watching U.S. boxers flatten Britain's best, crowed with delight. Bragged the Daily Mirror: "Turpin became world champion without any of the hokum that Americans have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight." London's anti-American, middlebrow New Statesman and Nation felt a primitive thrill: "The local boy from Leamington Spa became the giant-killer and we all felt bigger and better in consequence . . . Europe had risen from the gutter and thrashed the Prince of the Dollar Empire ... Morale rises ... Even the Government becomes our Government...