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Strangely enough, the government that tied Catholics and Socialists together got its start through the Russians. At Easter-time 1945, when the Russians were driving into Austria, Socialist Sage Dr. Karl Renner, one of the country's few surviving elder statesmen, found himself in Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon...
...Wenatchee (Wash.) World could get no paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber...
...years in Wall Street, including three as president of Dillon, Read & Co., had given him the financial know-how for the $30,000 a year job, had been offered it last week. (Onetime U.S. Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas had turned it down.) Although Forrestal was mumchance, one sage Washington dopester said: "It's as sure as anything can be these days that Jimmy will take...
...famous, fine man. Playwright Sean O'Casey, now 65, remembers that Dublin gawked and said wasn't Hyde the grandest champion the glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy ("if you knew all you should know, you wouldn't have task"). And standing on the other side...
...anonymous U.S. sage once summed up the whole matter more shortly: "The only perfect climate...