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...certainly urbane and charming. He speaks fluidly, puts one at case immediately, and quotes Balzac and Weber in the same breath. His silver mustache is immaculately clipped, his movements supple. And he knew how to run the tape recorder better than...
...made his way inside the Capitol after the ceremony, chatting with a handful of aides and Senators and their wives, Press Secretary Brady brought him the news of the hostages' departure. Cautioned Reagan: "Wait until they have cleared Iranian airspace so we can take that last little deep breath...
...insuring that those issues are resolved as they arise. Eventually, GUERRILLA will develop the initiative necessary to create issues and inflame passions, to move Harvard students to act, but to expect all this of an organization that is not yet two months old seems perhaps excessive. Hold your breath...
...President was asked to appraise the world leaders he had dealt with. He described China's Deng Xiaoping as a breath of fresh air, a man who, in Carter's mind, could be trusted to keep his word. "He was not afraid to talk about his country's weaknesses," said Carter, "something the Soviets would never dare do." Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was the most powerful of all the Western leaders he had worked with because of the wide authority granted to the President by French law. Britain's Margaret Thatcher...
When writers paused for breath, Mayes would start talking. By the time he had finished, their names were often affixed to contracts. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of his authors; so were Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Wouk, Agatha Christie, Art Linkletter, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lucille Ball and Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset...