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...fails to reveal much promise that he is a potential giant in U.S. history. The Warren utterances and speeches have never risen above the level of safe, dull political prose. He has rarely tried anything which had not been tried before. A calm man of Swedish descent, slow to anger, he has stuck close to the middle of the road. But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer and longer shadow across the land...
After Vice Admiral Ingram's pointed remarks in Montevideo, the result was a crashing anticlimax. A prevalent guess in Washington: Argentina's Government had already heard enough, was about to break relations with the Axis, and Mr. Roosevelt did not want to anger its Government at a critical moment. If not, the U.S. had suffered a dismal setback...
...According to other diplomats present, it is learned privately here, Dr. Hayes flushed with anger at General Franco's manner as well as at what he said and momentarily considered walking out from the party. This would have produced an international incident. Other diplomats, including [Britain's] Sir Samuel Hoare, were reported to have gathered around Dr. Hayes until he regained his composure...
City Editor Lane calls Oxie his dream man. His staff looks on Lane as a dream city editor, who came up the hard way. Unhurried, taciturn (but capable of awesome anger), he often takes on police rewrites between detailing assignments, bats out an Oxie between editions. Some of the staff's oldsters remark that since he quit drinking and became an active churchman Clem Lane has taken on a somewhat pontifical mien. The opposite is apparent in "Oxie O'Rourke...
...Sleeping Fire. Though the air of tradition is heavy in the tiny old courtroom where Sir Lyman presided, he kept the proceedings informal, ruled with courtesy and brilliance. But he could be tough. Once during the last sitting when he raised his voice, so unexpected was his anger a lawyer fled the courtroom...