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Citing the wrecking of the London conference, the N.R.A., the pig-killing, the pump priming, the court packing, and the purging as his reasons for distrusting the President, he labeled him "a brilliant amateur, fond of playing...
...Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described how he would paint Bach's music, many a trull, tramp and taxi driver. Fond of kidding Major Bowes, McCoy often bills his program as "Second Lieutenant McCoy's Opportunity Hour...
...another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...
...vocational and racial backgrounds, representing a true cross section of Canadian Youth-constitute in themselves a violent negation of the Whitehouse logic. Their theme song on camp route marches was There'll Always Be An England-and it arose from both hearts and lips. They are also genuinely fond of the U. S.-and after the destroyer deal I heard more than one rendition of God Bless America. To infer that these sentiments are incompatible is nonsense...
...remaining five years of his life, Diamond Jim showered the doctor with presents and confidences. He never smoked nor drank, remarked Dr. Young, but used to say shyly: "There is one other little pleasure I am very fond...