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...ruddy glow of November's victory, Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath waxed canonical over the worldly issue of spoils. The President, said he, would forgive "venial sins," e.g., little political lapses, and he would be hell on mortal sinners, e.g., Dixiecrats. The McGrath tract seemed quite clear: jobs for the faithful, the outer darkness for backsliders...
...Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...
...newsman: "It doesn't feel like 70 at all, old boy. It doesn't feel like anything at all, and I'll feel like that at 75 and 80 and beyond. I'll go on conducting to the end of my days, which is a hell...
...author, Gardner is devoted to whodunits, believes they have won a firm place in U.S. letters. "We talk of escape literature and look down our noses at it. But all literature is a form of escape. The readers demand it, I am interested in readers. To hell with editors. You can dig your own literary grave if you listen to editors. The detective story is a far more inspiring sermon than one from the pulpit. It reassures the reader about life, makes him believe that justice always triumphs. The western story and the detective story go hand in hand. They...
...Beware likewise the Timer; for he riseth early in the day and loitereth by the rail in search of the Fast Horse, but Hell will freeze over are he risketh a long Shot; and verily I say he shall have his reward...