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...then it was about 7:20, and the President had turned back on Pennsylvania Avenue. A lean Navy officer recognized his Commander in Chief, gave him a brisk salute and a casual "Good morning, Mr. President." Salute and greeting were as snappily and casually returned...
Troubles with Congress occupied the President. He talked with Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon on how to push through his apparently stymied bill for a civilian commission to control atomic-energy research. At his press conference, brisk Harry Truman bristled when a reporter asked about another bogged-down piece of legislation: the universal military training bill. Snapped the President: he had done everything he could possibly do, including a personally delivered message of recommendation; he could not order the Senate and House to pass...
...brutal & bloody consequences. When the husband (Frank Latimore) finally arrives, full of love and yearning, he finds his wife rigid and popeyed from fright. Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional...
...reissue of Critic Mark Van Doren's prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
...little aristocratic town of Beaufort, S.C., brisk, 46-year-old Dr. Montgomery P. Kennedy has been at it even longer. A specialist in obstetrics, he handled his first white case-a woman with post-childbirth hemorrhage-in 1930. He estimates that he has since delivered 85 white babies. With the local white doctors, he says he gets along "just fine, except for one Connecticut Yankee...