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...tricks as much as by a monarch's pomp and an artist's fictions. The last lines he committed to publication are a rollicking apostrophe to life that few other men of 80-or 40-could have written: "A whirlwind of primordial forces seized and bore me into the realm of ecstasy. And high and stormy, under my ardent caresses ... I saw the surging of that queenly bosom...
...graded noncommissioned officers, among whom re-enlistment attrition was critical, were most resentful of their dwindling prestige and authority. Their complaint bore out a report of a joint-services study committee, headed by Rear Admiral J. P. Womble Jr., which found there had been a serious "dilution in mili tary authority and leadership." Said the Womble report: "The committee unanimously concludes that the professional standards have been permitted to deteriorate through lack of effective disciplinary control...
Yearning for Nixon. Chairman Butler said that . . . the Democrats were yearning for Vice President Nixon to run in 1956 because he is "the worst Vice President in 35 years." Butler bore down: "He has trampled on the best traditions of American politics . . ." Nixon's coming good-will visit to the Middle East was "a good way to see the world at public expense ... I think the people are becoming aware of the fact that Nixon is not sincere...
...Duval's funeral, muffled drums played the Death March. Officers bore his decorations on three cushions, and behind them walked Gilbert Grandval. The Resident General's face was blue with fatigue. Climbing to the rostrum, Grandval addressed himself to Duval's widow, sitting near by. "Madame . . ." he began, but a storm of voices from the 4,000 assembled colons drowned him: "Assassin!" "Dirty Jew!" "Get out!" Madame Duval got up to leave. A chaplain next to her pulled her back down. "If you go, blood will be spilled." Grandval finished his speech, but as he drove away...
...from 132 to 118 lbs., his voice was shot, his record sales had practically stopped. His relations with the press were in shreds. Church groups were fighting him because of all the scandal. The Government was after him for $110,000 in back taxes. "Anyone know of a bigger bore just now," the Daily News inquired, "than Frank Sinatra?" Frankie, said the boys in Toots Shor's and in Chasen's, was done...