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...flirtation is set against his chief assailant's years-ago sexual misstep, the one man would kill anyone to win, the other man kills himself. The play's more personal scenes-they are fortunately few-are by all odds its weakest. And straight on from the telltale letter left loose in an open drawer, Advise and Consent far oftener obeys the laws of melodrama than it sheds light on the political depths. Possibly, if political issues and aims are not to be truly probed-something not easily done behind footlights-it is just as well they stay general...
...Secretary who, every summer, seems to lapse into disharmony with the Government bond market?" When Morgenthau demanded to meet the author of these impudent words, the Banker was understandably reluctant to present him with a female financial writer hardly out of her teens. The journal politely refused, in a letter that offered no clue as to her gender. Morgenthau found out anyway, dropped the matter-and eventually turned into a Sylvia Porter...
...Porter is a woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph-brought an odd sort of celebrity: one longtime column correspondent moodily addressed his next letter to "Darling" instead of "Dear Mr. Porter." From the U.S. Senate floor, in 1942, Colorado's Edwin Johnson branded her "the biggest liar in the United States" after a rash of Porter attacks on his silver policy. As the only lady business columnist in harness, she was in steady vogue...
Last month San Francisco's former Mayor Elmer Robinson was idly thumbing through a catalogue of Manhattan's Carnegie Book Shop. A noted bibliophile, Robinson was shocked to see on sale a 1916 letter from President Woodrow Wilson-a letter that Robinson last saw when he donated it to Stanford as part of an $8,000 collection of 43 historical documents. Robinson promptly called library officials. All the documents were gone, along with another batch of presidential autographs, from Washington to Hoover...
Balance of payments is the difference between the amount of foreign money spent in the United States and the amount of American money spent abroad, including expenditures for imports, foreign troops, and aid to other countries. In a letter to the New York Times, Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, maintained that there are "good prospects" for restoring balance "by normal processes of economic adjustment." He stipulated, however, that other countries reduce their restrictions on American exports and increase their lending and foreign...