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...decided what matters should be brought to the President's attention; then he cleared his agenda with the physicians. When he submitted a paper for signature, it was in as good order as was possible, it had been cleared by the Government department concerned, and it bore the "O.K., S.A." that President Eisenhower watches for on papers submitted to him in the White House or in the hospital...
...record book bore them out. With an astonishing show of early foot, the Dodgers had made a runaway of the National League pennant race. Their pitchers had faltered in the stretch, but they were rested now. In the field they were sure and sharp. At bat they were loaded. Their right-handed sluggers could murder left-handed pitchers-and the Yankees' best (Ford and Byrne) were lefties...
...hard not to be a bore about boredom. In Russia, it may be downright dangerous. This can be deduced from the sad experience of Ilya Ehrenburg, who normally leads a full, rich, happy life in the Soviet Union, with a luxurious apartment in Moscow, a dacha in the country, a villa in the south, a talented wife, and a rag-taggle of pedigreed dogs. But in his latest novel, published in Russia last year, Ehrenburg let on that life is a bit of a bore and wondered whether it is worth living at all. Whereupon his fellow workers in literature...
...China in 1922, was too weak to tell a coherent story. "Communist radio," he mumbled. "Lamps and loudspeakers . . . for days and nights." His body told more. The bishop's beard had been partly plucked out; there were blood clots under the skin on his hands, and his wrists bore the marks of manacles. "I told them, 'My thoughts are my own, and you will not change them,' " he whispered later. "They failed. I would never change my mind...
...Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...