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...paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News's able paragrapher, Harry V. Wade, moved up to editor of the News, Vaughan took over Wade's syndicated column, "Senator Soaper Says." Soaper now bubbles in more than 120 U.S. papers and five abroad...
...Cyrille Adoula sat down to negotiate with his archenemy, Katanga's Moise Tshombe. The meeting place itself was strange enough-a hospital waiting room at a United Nations military base. And how did the angry foes start their discussion of the embattled Congo's future? With a fond embrace, knee-slapping guffaws and a day of jokes and laughter...
Like an eager candidate for membership in the Union League Club, the President ticked off the names of his chief aides who had come from the business community-Secretaries Hodges, Dillon, McNamara, et al. His speech was studded with assurances of his fond feelings toward private enterprise, and one promise drew a burst of applause: "This administration, therefore, during its term of office-and I repeat this and make it as a flat statement-has no intention of imposing exchange controls, devaluing the dollar, raising trade barriers or choking off our economic recovery...
...complex. In his theology, he said, men are free to gamble if they choose; and he may have been hinting that he failed to see why his conscience should be bound by other people's moral requirements, and that perhaps the issue of gambling laws should be reopened au fond...
Like many writers of light verse these days, Felicia Lamport is fond of creating new words by lopping off prefixes, but she does it better than most...