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...nothing the operators had not offered him in the first place. But he had seldom quoted as fiercely and gloomily from Shakespeare, had seldom endured criticism with more martyr-like fortitude. When it was all over he stood up before the news cameras as though he heard a surf-like thunder of applause...
Harry Truman floated atop successive waves of crisis like a bold bather frolicking in the breakers. Troubled waters mounted mightily, surged thunderously in his direction, broke magnificently over the President's head. From the foamy surf Harry Truman bobbed up every time, splashing and spouting lightheartedly...
...white-haired, white-mustached founder of the world's richest branch banking system was spending the winter as befitted his station-amid the surf-edged, palm-shaded luxury of the Breakers Hotel. Certain necessary trappings of state were in evidence-telegrams were delivered, long distance calls put through, and a fitting number of moist, pink vice presidents arrived to intone, "Yes, A.P.," at proper intervals...
First came the White Russians, who as taxi drivers, doormen or waiters could not forget that they had once been gentlefolk. Next came the people who had laughed loudest at the White Russians, the fugitives from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Then in a swamping human surf came the fugitives from Spain. Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries, France. All of them bore, like a leper's bell, the one ineffaceable possession left them by their ordeal-the mood of quiet desperation, quiet, because its very existence threatened the peace of mind of those who still felt secure; quiet, because...
...surf licked ever higher. Labor Conciliator Edgar Warren, the man chosen to settle the threatened meat packers' strike, hinted that the only solution was a ½c-a-lb. increase in the price of meat bought by the Army, Navy and UNRRA. Chester Bowles, his bathrobe soaked to the belt, remained...