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Next day, after a night of consultation with his lawyer and Manhattan Pressagent Carl Byoir, Hughes turned up at the hearing room with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...
...logical agency to sponsor Wallace. The largest organization in the College, it has won a reputation as a smooth-working, effective group. And as a group that is both Veteran and liberal, its sponsorship provides an ideal setting for Wallace's appearance--though he could pack the house backed only by the S.P.C.A...
Careful, conscientious Christian Herter discouraged committeemen from taking their wives, told them to pack no dinner clothes, be prepared on their return to answer a stiff and lengthy questionnaire. Herter's goal, enthusiastically seconded by Secretary of State George Marshall: to break down old prejudices and educate key personnel of the House...
...Petersburg, the tarpon boats lay idle at their piers. Down the coast at Sarasota, merchants glumly watched the summer vacationists pack their bags and leave. The beach hot-dog stands were deserted at Indian Rocks and Pass-a-Grille; many beach cottages were empty. Under the hot summer sun, the stench of rotting fish seeped into houses, clung to clothes. The strange phenomenon which Floridians called the "Red Tide" had come back to the Gulf Coast...
Wiser, some sadder, and a few disillusioned, a hundred young women in the Radcliffe summer secretarial and publishing courses not only pack up shorthand notebooks for the last time at Longfellow Hall today, but also mixed impressions of the Harvard male on warm weather prowl...