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Henry turned. "Are you trying to tell me I can't have jelly with my toast?" he said. He continued spooning apple jelly, calmly and deliberately, and when there wasn't any more apple jelly he began on the peanut butter...
Rhode Island's grandest old man. Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, rose as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans...
...bemedaled then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running...
Something for All. Such coups have kept Quadros on the front pages ever since he left for Japan last March. Brazil's newspapers sent their top men to catch Quadros in Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe. Quadros missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when...
...followed up with a toast to President Eisenhower. "I, like all my colleagues, like your President." he said. "We like his sincerity, his gentlemanship...