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...lobby-sized green-and-gold Hollywood office last week, a wiry, high-domed man gnawed a massive cigar, paced briskly back & forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open anteroom behind his desk, to stalk an idea among the stuffed heads of a water hog and an antelope, the skins of a lion and a jaguar, the sawed-off feet of an elephant and a rhino. Working in relay, three stenographers dashed into the huge office to scribble notes, dashed out again to rush...
Arthur Stanley, Pease, For 18 years Pease taught Latin at the College with a Yankee twang and mentality. President of Amherst from 1927 to 1932, he fought off the declining popularity of the classics here by perfecting the techniques of teaching Latin composition as if it were a current course...
...flat, homey, Western Missouri twang, Harry Truman made it all sound as easy as gathering eggs, and about as familiar. Those who raised objections were just old fogies...
...brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest hits, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22, 1944). The Yankee twang was sharpened even more by commissioning new ballet scores from U.S. composers...
...flat, Ohio twang of Taft, it had an unfortunate way of sounding merely "agin." Taft, who had been slow to see the threat of Hitler, was sounding-in his urge for economy-as if he didn't really take Russia's threat too seriously. ("It is possible that the danger, of a crisis is being exaggerated somewhat at the time when appropriations are being sought," he said in a recent speech in Washington. "On the other hand, I may be wrong . . .") He also had a talent for the tactless: "We are paying out more than $12 billion...