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...sane regimen, and keeping him from overwork. It was not always so. In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, when Hopkins was working 18 hours a day, one of his male friends once counseled: "Cut it out, Harry, you'll kill yourself." Harry, who is no man to overlook a little quiet drama, looked up over his shell-rimmed glasses and replied: "Do you know a better...
...Arithmetic of Power. "In other words, what the Soviet Union is doing is seeking its security through augmentation of its national power regardless of the rights or interests of its allies. Those who stubbornly try to overlook this fact (when they do not approve it) seem a little weak at arithmetic. For the Polish group now unilaterally recognized by Moscow is the ninth of a series. The other political entities which the Soviet Union treats as 'governments,' in contrast to the U.S.A. and Britain, are the three Baltic states, the . . . administrations of Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary...
...Virginian. He lived well. He bought a Virginia estate in Culpeper County at an auction, without even warning his wife, who like his mother was a Richmond belle. She could hardly have objected when she saw the lovely Greekporticoed house on a hill, and the 650 acres that overlook the Rapidan River. There Stettinius, as a "gentleman farmer," still keeps blooded Guernseys, and sells 1,500 turkeys a year. Amid the lindens and old magnolias of "The Horse Shoe," he rides horseback and romps with his Dalmatian. Pepper (one of whose pups is owned by his friend George Catlett Marshall...
...could stand. President Rainey received a message from Regent Strickland to stop making so many speeches. Although the Regents promptly denied that they had made any such official request, the Daily Texan, campus newspaper, hit right back: "Instances of smalltown 'school boardism' . . . have been too many to overlook the report of a 'shut-up' rule to the president of the institution...
...gifts for his wife and son, $7,000 which he invested in war bonds. Twice he saved Martin and Morris from being sent overseas by having them temporarily transferred to his own unit. In January, Radovich himself went overseas (though he had to persuade his commanding officer to overlook a minor leg injury) and played a hero's role in the CBI until his conscience overtook...