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...richest gossip of his time died last week. On his deathbed, fat, vain little Maury Henry Biddle Paul, "Cholly Knickerbocker" of the New York Journal-American, could well reflect that he had made himself more famous than most of the puppets he wrote about in his quarter century as a society reporter...
With elections ever closer, Congress has increasingly humbled itself in a vain effort to please everyone. And the resulting advancement of sectional and group interests has made coherent planning impossible. With its treasury tax bill reduced by almost two billions, the $25,000 limit on personal income discarded, and effective price ceiling hamstrung by a fifty per cent cut in OPA funds, the administration anti-inflation program forms a striking case in point. The continued refusal of Congress to grant Leon Henderson necessary powers and appropriations in the struggle against inflation, and its insistence on farm price parity still threatens...
...successful man, Rommel is vain, arrogant and autocratic, for when he makes war nowadays he takes all the responsibility, all the blame, all the glory. When things go awry in battle, he flies into volcanic rages that produce results. He showers everyone around him with a stream of vituperation, usually beginning with "Schweinehunde...
...beer & skittles for Fairchild. Products of its nuts & bolts empire must be trucked to its assembly lines. And truck tires are scarce. Artisans trained to work in leisurely style with meticulous care will not adjust themselves to wartime manufacturing tempo. Fairchild argues (in vain) for more wood-butchering, for less craftsmanship...
...expired, Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo unbagged a weasel that smelled to heaven. The assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, announced the Gestapo, had been discovered in a Prague church and "shot while resisting arrest." Snorted the BBC: "Embittered and frightened by Czech resistance, Nazi authorities let themselves indulge in vain and useless threats...