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Attired in his favorite garment?a faded uniform democratically without rank insignia of any kind?he loomed more than ever the fighter among his impressively and impeccably garmented staff. Peering at the correspondents from beneath his great eyebrows he replied to their request for an interview...
...just before Boy-Ed was recalled to Germany at the request of the State Department, the U. S. Secret Service intercepted a German cable addressed to him which read: "YOU MAY MARRY TIRPITZ." Puzzled, U. S. cryptographic experts toiled over these four words, failed to extract a meaning from what they took to be a fathomless code, at length goaded almost to distraction cautiously persisted in holding up the cable...
...Please remember, the request...
...place of practical humor was set up a system of more subtle wit the institution of Senior advisers. Some of these sages by proxy attended to their duties conscientiously, a numerous section did not. Too often the audience was treated to a handshake, a hurried call, and a request to drop around some time...
...York because here I can find the inspiration of good jazz music. New York is jazz incarnate. Its architecture, its business, its life-all sparkle to a syncopated measure. . . . An honest jazz tune is better than a sermon on prohibiting anything. . . . When I die I have only one request to make. I want music at my funeral, but no dirge or mournful laments. Play only one thing and let that number be George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue.' To me it is truly great music, and certainly it is the music that best expresses us moderns...