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Luckily he had Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...
...This sledging through rough country was hard work," Washburn said, "and was not that Clark Gable-Loretta Young type, with a basket on the sledge, and the rider all wrapped up in fur robes. Either you push the sledge from behind, or when you get too tired to do that, you would go forward to break the trail...
...Minute" is a delightful farce starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. Roger undertakes to spend $1,000 a minute for twelve hours, to settle a bet between two plutocrats. A yacht, a race horse, a Duesenberg, a mastiff, an elephant, a Trans-continental airplane, a $30,000 fur coat, and sundry other trivial bring the story to the point where Roger has to have $50,000 to buy a tube of radium (a gift to a hospital) and has a capital of only...
...Mayors, like New York's, have frequently been in hot water. That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME...
...Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate him, the Embassy had Pentecostalist Baker brought to Moscow, thence to be shipped to the U. S. Wearing fur cap, fur-lined jacket and high boots, he joyously scrutinized the Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn't make them understand what I was after, but they treated...