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...forefinger and the forward head bob. Du Mont's Paul Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...
...book of poems, stumbled on a salesman's suitcase containing one gross of "ladies' undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title for my book of poems-Chamber Music...
...busy from io to 7, six days a week. Its entrance hall is always acrawl with teen-agers in woolen practice tights, knitting, gossiping, giggling between sessions. Many of them take lessons every day (cost: some $450 a year). After their third year, the girls put on their first toe slippers; after their seventh or eighth, the most talented pupils are ready for positions in the company...
...dictating he likes to sit on the edge of the desk and swing a putter or a nine iron. Or sometimes he slips a specially designed 5-lb. weight over the toe of his left shoe, and swings the leg back & forth to exercise the knee which he injured during his West Point football career...
...stated that Eisenhower "could have let his foreign policy be dictated by those members of his party" who favored the America First or Arsenal of Democracy approach with its comparative isolationism. Dulles' statement that there would be an "agonizing" re-appraisal of American foreign policy if France failed to toe the line, so to speak, in the near future was a compromise attitude. It reflected Eisenhower's desire to consolidate Western strength and was, I feel, entirely justified considering France's delaying tactics on EDC and a European federation. America, the world's strongest nation, has been rejecting its responsibilities...