Word: statesmens
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...ending Hoffman's infamous career. A man with tremendous perspective, one of America's greatest humanitarians, Carl Sandburg might be refused by some because of his lack of political experience. But it is not bargaining politicians that we want in our next Congress, rather it is far-seeing statesmen and born democrats who will be qualified to help guide us through the rest of the war and the crucial peace to follow...
...better known as Spencer Tracy on M.G.M.'s payroll). Up until their wedding night, the picture hits all the heights of humor and contrast you could ask for. His friends are the worn-out prizefighters, gamblers, and reporters that hang around Joe's bar; her friends are prominent diplomats, statesmen, and political prime-movers. His line is sports; her's is "the problems of the day." His language is Bill Cunninghamese; her's is every foreign tongue worth gargling. He takes her to see a baseball game from the press box; she asks him to one of her international cocktail...
...Temple was born to the ecclesiastical purple-his father was Archbishop of Canterbury before him. After a brilliant career at Oxford, topped by a first in classics and the presidency of the Oxford Union (traditional steppingstone for British statesmen but a post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...
...Hempstead, 33, broad-browed and volatile, who broke the Hollywood ice with Kitty Foyle, quit his job as Utah's Corporation Commissioner to become an RKO script reader at $30 a week. Son of a well-fixed Salt Lake City attorney, Hempstead talked to Hollywood's elder statesmen from the start in the language they understood. "You're just exactly 150% wrong!" became his standard utterance...
...That every lady had a price was a foregone conclusion . . . but only from 20,000 leis up did they consider her a lady. It was the same with the politicians . . . if they were expensive enough they could be considered statesmen...