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While they were gone, at exactly 10:14, the ancient steam engine began to huff & puff, and without a human soul aboard, the little train slowly pulled out of Palace Gates...
Burly Tenor Ramon (Otello) Vinay was in a sweat. A Chilean trained for Italian and French opera, he had worked hard for over a year to huff himself into a German-style Heldentenor, and he was all set to sing his first Tristan, with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde. San Franciscans (and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sorely needs a successor to Lauritz Melchior) were all set to hear him. But a fortnight ago, with debut day almost at hand, Tenor Vinay was bogged down in Chile. A stubborn Santiago impresario refused to let him leave the country until...
...There has also been trouble in top management. Last year, when the board of directors began to question the authority of President George T. Christopher, the crack production man who had run the company pretty much as a one-man show for nearly eight years, he quit in a huff. Packard had no one to replace...
...Huff. It was a grey day, with just enough rain to annoy but not enough to refresh; in the musty conference room, of Andrew Carnegie decor, it was just as depressing. Then in strode Harry Truman with his usual cheerful step. For a man deep in fateful decisions he looked singularly unruffled. Never the worrying kind, since war broke out in Asia, the President had, nevertheless, on several occasions, seemed weary. Last week, even the weariness was gone...
With scarcely any warmup, he promptly went into his weekly political huff. The previous week his target had been Ohio's Robert Taft. Last week it was the Republican opposition to his renomination of Sumner Pike to the Atomic Energy Commission. That opposition seemed to him foolish. He was perfectly aware, he said, that the ground was political; yes, party political; Republican Party political, if you please. It was no surprise to Truman that Colorado's heretic Edwin C. Johnson-a Democrat, of all things-had voted with the Republican Senators against Pike, for Johnson, the President observed...