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...received a copy . . . and that was the first I heard about it," said Architect John A. Holabird. Only committee member who admitted working on The Truth was Chairman John T. Pirie, president of State Street's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Starchy Mr. Pirie could not explain why his fellow members had not seen the report, snapped: "Simply an oversight-somebody bungled." Next day The Truth was withdrawn from circulation as mysteriously as it had been issued...
Being a kind and patient man in private life, it would take what Pegler calls a "Viennese head-feeler" to explain his acidity in print. Born in Minneapolis, he worked for the United Press in the U.S. and abroad, wrote a column of sports comment before Roy Howard brought him to the New York World-Telegram in 1933 and made the universe his beat. Pegler is a laborious writer; his brisk, integrated sentences are the result of patient rewriting. Most of his turbulent columns are composed in the seclusion of his Pound Ridge, N. Y. estate, near the haunts...
...speech died away, he began to talk into a microphone with clipped, slightly pompous inflections, using facial expressions and gestures as if he were addressing a visible audience. Without pause Hans von Kaltenborn had translated and distilled a 73-minute speech, and for 15 minutes proceeded ex tempore to explain its significance and predict (correctly) its consequences...
...question-how does anyone explain the payment out of public funds for the keep of the secretary to the President's wife...
Last year Professor Hogben published Mathematics for the Million, a study of the history, purposes and methods of mathematics. It undertook to explain algebra, trigonometry, spherical geometry, logarithms, graphs, calculus. This turned out to be a best-selling piece of nonfiction...