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...Asked to explain the above, administration officials say that the foreign governments have not balanced their budgets. This cannot of course refer to Great Britain, which will have a small surplus this year, but it does refer to France, where there is an indicated deficit of about a half billion dollars...
...excited too. It had not expected as much as the New Yorkers did eight years ago and it got more. The light, appealing voice seemed better controlled. The Caro Nome with its trills and top was expertly sung. The acting had some meaning. When newsmen asked Marion Talley to explain the change she answered: "Madame Schumann-Heink used to tell me I needed to live and to suffer. Well, maybe I have. That was seven years...
...Bermuda samples of Australian wines were stacked ready to be rushed to Manhattan. There are no Australian vintage years because, Australians eagerly explain, "the weather is so perfect that every year is the same." Anxious not to offend the King's subjects down under, the Encyclopædia Britannica puts Australian wines in their place with a maximum of tact: "The plentiful supply of cheap grape brandy makes it possible for Australia to send to England ever increasingly large quantities of fortified wines [i. e. dosed with brandy], wines which being rich in natural grape sweetness...
...much to ask of one man. But Harvard has learned to expect great things of her presidents. She will expect him to recognize in this present instance a dangerous tendency, particularly dangerous since it attacks a youthful institution. She will expect him to take a decisive stand, and to explain his position clearly. She has not been trained to tolerate equivocation in crises...
President Conant retaliated by beginning his speech, "Ladies and Gentlemen, and Mr. Toastmaster." He went on to explain that he was a student himself; he was learning to be a college president. He claimed that he had attempted a correspondence course in "What every young college president should know," but it had been of no avail, he was still new to the job. The President told of a professor that he had met at Oxford. This professor believed that if the American college professors had as much power as it was claimed, they should move to Europe, and do nothing...