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Baruch is immune to panic and impervious to hot-flush enthusiasm, a stranger to mercurial emotions, remorseless in decision. Henderson is a walking panic, either marrow-frozen or running a death-watch fever, and is given to so many enthusiasms at once that he looks like the last 30 seconds of a Japanese tumbling...
...Chief of the U.S. Fleet (June 1936 to January 1938). A saltwater sailor who has had more sea service than any other officer in the service, Admiral Hepburn knows what it is to meet the press, from his experience as delegate to London and Geneva Conferences. Still less a stranger to press problems is the new aide wangled last week for Admiral Hepburn: Hal O'Flaherty, able, genial managing editor of Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News...
...Specialist is young, handsome Lawrence Loy, a Kansan who has called dances since he was a boy, did the calls for Columbia's square-dance album. To back up Caller Loy, Columbia hired rangy, twinkling Carson Robison, a harmonica-burbling Kansas balladeer, no stranger to records and radio. Carson Robison's chief problem in making square-dance discs in the East was to find city fiddlers who could saw scratchy enough. He finally found them in Manhattan...
...himself is sometimes pestered by subversive elements. One time two people visited him on the pretext of wanting to practice their German. They came armed with a bottle of Scotch, and, after they thought he had been "softened up," they peppered him with Nazi propaganda. On another occasion a stranger invited Shallenberger to come with him to greet a boatload of Germans who were entering the country illegally--an invitation which he refused...
...students of Harvard University may fully recognize the character of the war psychosis or hysteria which is now driving the United States inevitably to war and which has been influentially stimulated by certain members of the administration of Harvard University, let me quote the following paragraph from The Mysterious Stranger written many years ago by Mark Twain...