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Harold Ross has a highly combustible disposition, a scornful disdain of public relations, an unfailing nose for what he dislikes and a sure eye for what he wants: the easy, lounging air that the New Yorker affects. Last week, a former employee named Russell Maloney tried to reconcile the shock-haired man with his brilliantined product. Maloney worked for Ross for eleven years and resigned at last because he "felt rather middle-aged and pooped...
...tone of London is not a happy one, and not a pleasant atmosphere for tourism. The austerity and grimness includes a proud disdain of foreigners, and you can feel it in the streets. Americans are uncomfortable, and will return next fall with harsh things to say about Britain, but they will have witnessed an inspiring process: self-disciplined construction and radical experiment building on a foundation of the ages. And admiration, when strong enough, is not far from liking
...Russians replied on the double. Said Pravda: "The question arises, what prompted Dulles to disdain elementary decency to give vent to a wrathful speech against the U.S.S.R...
...clubs." German prestige was boundless; German spies and informers were thick underfoot. A "very sinister" Turk named Lazar, attached to the German Embassy although he was a Jew, controlled the Spanish press. Seated before signed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini, Dictator Franco received the British envoy with polite disdain. "Why don't you end the war now?" Franco asked. "You can never...
Butcher shops felt the full weight of buyers' disdain. Prices fell rapidly in most cities. When the price of a pair of pajamas was quoted at $5.75, a San Antonio bank clerk snapped: "I'll keep on sleeping in old shirts instead." Boston's R. H. White department store, which for years could not keep any bedroom furniture on its floor, got a carload at the beginning of the week, still had almost all of it at week...