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...understand that it is at least excusable if we think, and if much of the world will think, that what is actually under way here is another illustration of the unwillingness of the Soviet Union actually to restore genuine freedom and independence in any area where it has once gotten its grip...
...Foster Dulles is a master. He recognizes the importance of communicating his ideas and policies to others, and works hard at checking his circuits of communications. (In his early months as Secretary of State, he would often ask associates, after a Cabinet meeting or a conference, whether he had gotten his ideas across.) When he finds he has been misunderstood, he tries again, tirelessly editing his own public speeches, and even his own thoughts...
...market that some connoisseurs are forced to specialize in such restricted areas as complete Beethoven Quartet issues. When quizzed about some rare or new release that he knows absolutely nothing about, the good Diskman replies "in a thinly disguised tone of contempt: 'Sorry, I haven't gotten around to that yet. I've been busy comparing the new Barstow Quartet series with the earlier complete Beethovens. Takes a while, y' know...
Phones, Flippers. Arthur Godfrey, having gotten into trouble during 1954 with humility, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the breeders of Weimaraner dogs, added followers of Senator Joseph McCarthy to his list. On the heels of McCarthy's break with the President, Godfrey commented on his show that "Dwight D. Eisenhower is a great President." The CBS switchboard was busy for a while with irate calls from McCarthyites announcing that they were down on both Godfrey and his sponsors...
...Aime. In Barcelona, Spain, friends of Circus Acrobat Luis Raluys. who for ten years had been fired from a cannon by his wife, made public his explanation for his retirement: "Her aim has gotten so bad I've been in the hospital 17 times. The last time she fired me I landed in the lions' cage. Ive had enough...