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...crinkle-eyed pipe-smoker in the Kremlin appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
High Hopes and a Pair of Mules. Slim, ruddy Farmer Wall had come a long way since 1935. That year he rebelled at working any longer as a hired hand for $20 a month. He married trim, freckled Carolyne Schaulk, a hired girl on a nearby farm, and started farming on his own. The Walls rented 80 acres north of Panora (pop. 1,169). With their $300 savings they bought a pair of flap-eared mules, a cookstove, a cream separator and a linoleum square. With $300 more borrowed from the Farmers State Bank they bought two brood sows...
...Division: Major General Manton S. Eddy, 52, 6 ft. 2, 210 lbs.; a stickler for detail and physical conditioning, who used to run his officers daily over a five-mile course in Africa to keep them in trim...
...long-distance call from National Chairman Harrison Spangler, making the nomination official, had just come through to the Governor's Mansion at Albany. Trim in a grey suit and russet tie, Tom Dewey greeted the newsmen, shaking hands all around, but maintaining an unblinking dignity. To the first man offering congratulations, Tom Dewey cracked: "You mean congratulations or commiseration...
John Dewey Rides Again-One Christmas, Humorist Perelman decided to trim a Christmas tree. Advised Mademoiselle: "Dip tips of twisted cotton strips into India ink." Author Perelman went to work muttering: "Tip dips of twisted crotton sips. . . . Sip dips of cristed totton tips." Finally he surrendered to House & Garden's "inspiration of the season-an upside-down-evergreen tree swung from the ceiling...