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...warmer" (words to dampen the enthusiasm of any weekender), Mr. Cameron will carol: "A few light, puffy clouds . . . probably clear weather ahead." Another longtime wish which Weather man Cameron has not yet nerved himself to fulfill is to send the newspapers a daily post-mortem along the lines of "Uh huh, we told you it would rain yesterday, and it did," or "We said thunderstorms. Nothing much happened because a high-pressure area acted up at the very last minute...
...blond, blue-eyed Governor Warren seems to radiate goodness and warmth. Impressed by his relaxed good nature, his evident simplicity, the eager "yes, yes" and "uh-huh, uh-huh" with which he indicates earnest interest in everything they have to say, his visitors often begin to fit him into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses...
...under way," he cries gaily, rubbing his hands as the sail bloats to the breeze. "Where to?" someone asks. "Uh?" he says, searching their faces; "Doesn't anyone know?" But there is no compass...
...turn of the century. Given by Manhattan's Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, the show featured the work of the most blandishing portrayers of women in recent history: the late John Singer Sargent and his less famous French friend, the late Paul Helleu (pronounced Ell-uh). Both had undoubtedly, as the catalogue stated, felt the sorcery of young girls and of the ladies in whom the fascination of youth had been replaced by the art of studied sophistication. Both had been surrounded by wows and had made them look even more wowing than they were...
Saay, just what does an officer get if he is three quarters of the way to Oshkosh, gets sent to Paducah, calls up his wife from Bloomfield and finds that half an hour after the effective date of his orders she started for Charleston? Would she . . . well . . . uh . . . better study it for the exam tomorrow, just to be sure...