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Powers is neither buffoon nor court jester but a shrewd and amiable Irishman who knows the President's moods and specializes in the topics of the day with a dry wit and sometimes sharp thrust. Universally liked around the White House, he carefully addresses Kennedy as "Mr. President," just as carefully avoids horning in on any serious matters of state. His invariable greeting for even the stuffiest White House visitor is "Hi, pal." As he rode through the streets of Paris in a motorcade after meeting Charles de Gaulle, Powers waved to the crowd and shouted: "Comment alley-voos...
...their empire from a large double office in a warehouse-like building on the site of the Boston Tea Party. Henderson is spokesman and operating chief, but when financial transactions are involved, both men join in the negotiations. At Beacon Hill social gatherings, Henderson seems anything but a shrewd businessman as he lopes about snapping flashgun pictures of his fellow guests or sits down at the piano to torture the company with his own composition. Come with Me (sample line: "Even silly atoms know they should detonate"). Actually, he is a financial wizard who, along with the Zeckendorfs...
...those on contemporary American and British fiction. These articles are grouped under the title, "Famous Since the War," and just everybody is covered, from Lawrence Durrell to J. D. Salinger ("Everybody's Favorite"--but not Mr. Kazin's). While the Salinger article, a review of Franny and Zooey, is shrewd and right, the articles on Mailer, Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas and the others should be read as quickly as they were evidently written...
Businessmen have broader horizons, pursue export sales more energetically. A still small but significant factor of change is the Spanish women. More are going to universities than ever before. Man's traditional supremacy no longer goes unquestioned. Says a shrewd Spaniard: "When does a man work best? When he is pushed by women. In Spain, the women are beginning to push the men.'' Still Backward. Occasionally Franco contributes an article on economics to a Madrid journal, signing his pieces "Hispanicus," and he takes full credit for Spain's economic progress. Actually, much of the credit belongs...
...father, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, rose from stock clerk to owner of a vast shipping fortune. By shrewd investment, her brother John-a skittery recluse whose sole passion is the study of rodent anatomy-has become Britain's richest...