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...fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he said, picking himself up with a lordly air, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Or the time Fritz Reiner congratulated him on "a delightful evening spent with Mozart and Beecham." "Why," came the reply, "drag in Mozart?" Or the time he was visiting as an honored guest in Mexico City and was asked his opinion of the regular conductor of the Mexico City Opera. "You know what we do with a musician like that in England?'' he roared. "We clap...
...Newsweek buy was characteristic. When Graham heard that bidding for the foundation stock had centered around $45 a share, he raised the ante to $50 ("I thought to myself, 'Oh, nuts, don't drag along' "). Meanwhile he had dispatched Post Managing Editor Alfred Friendly to Rome to secure a pledge from W. Averell Harriman. U.S. roving ambassador and an early Newsweek backer, to sell Graham Harriman's 13% Newsweek holding. Then, with Doubleday & Co., Inc. his only remaining competition, Graham helped the Astor trust officers make up their minds by offering hard cash, one-third...
Skid Landing. Coming down, White put his plane into a cautious glide that permitted it to slow to Mach 3. Then he opened his speed brakes: four doorlike vanes near the tail that open into the air stream to add drag. They brought him down to Mach 2, which is strolling speed for the X-15. He decelerated gradually to subsonic speed, was soon in position for his landing approach at Rogers Dry Lake. Three miles from the touchdown point, he jettisoned the fin under the tail to clear the landing skids, and skidded to a clean landing...
...presidential election. Both sides agree that the market is too high on the basis of current and expected earnings. But the buyers believe that the recovery from the current recession will be quick, count on long life for the Kennedy market. The sellers believe that the recession will drag on for some months and that the stock market may be due for a correction rather than a sustained advance...
...Animal Health Trust: "An animal doesn't understand what fasting is. It might be worried if its food did not arrive. It would wonder what it had done wrong." Comedian Charlie Chester: "It's all bilge. If I want to help the hungry, I won't drag my poodle Sasha into it." N. J. Lambert of the Canine Defense League: "The cardinal's idea seems fatuous. It would be punishing the animals. They would not know what it was for." Then he threw in a bit of startling theology: "We have some animals who behave...