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...demand the Congressmen, did not the Central Intelligence Agency, which is supposed to know what is going on everywhere in the world, know about the plots in Bogota? If the CIA did know what was going on, why wasn't the State Department informed in time? For the umpteenth time, the United States has been put into a foolish position for lack of proper intelligence work, and the Congressmen, as representatives of public opinion, are howling for investigations and blood...
...novel-in which the inimitable Jeeves makes his umpteenth appearance-Pelham Grenville Wodehouse says of Jeeves's cuckoo-pated employer, Berty Wooster: "If there is one quality that distinguishes him, it is his ability to keep the lip stiff and upper and make the best of things. Though crushed to earth, as the expression is, he rises again-not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect and with an eye alert for silver linings...
Alois Hitler, half-brother of Adolf, was getting pretty tired of it all: U.S. newsmen in Germany were still getting in his hair. For the umpteenth time he recited his grubby life story for them, and then offered a self-portrait. Said he: "I am a tired old man who is fed up with being questioned about Hitler...
Harold L. ("Terrible-Tempered") Ickes, asked for the umpteenth time if he expected to quit his Interior Secretaryship soon, tried a kittenish answer for a change: "That cat has more than nine lives. . . . Besides, I don't like cats...
...Anchors Aweigh" is the umpteenth movie about two sailors on a furlough, Despite the hackneyed plot, however, it has more zest, vitality, and originality than the great majority of its predecessors. Although Frank Sinatra gets top billing, the film is a personal triumph for Gene Kelly...