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...concerned who seemed to have kept his head. Said he: "I can only say that a man suffering the loss of a close friend [Press Secretary Charles G. Ross] and carrying the terrible burden of the present world crisis ought to be indulged in an occasional outburst of temper...
...Alley's merry little elves of music, the tunesmiths and the record makers, have tied on their long white whiskers. Last week record counters were loaded as usual with Christmas productions for every age, taste and temper. There were The Man with the Bag, Christmas in Killarney, Christmas in My Heart, Christmas in Heaven, Christmas Alone, Santa Send Someone to Me, When It's Christmas on the Range, Blue Christmas (Billy Eckstine), etc., as well as the perennial White Christmas. One to avoid: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus. A good one, particularly for youngsters: The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...What Junk?" In Hitler Directs His War, Bryn Mawr History Professor Felix Gilbert has edited the fragments with main attention to the temper and character of Adolf Hitler, reduced many technical and tactical sessions to synopsis treatment in an appendix. One of the first things that struck Editor Gilbert was the way Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer...
...small towns, smiling a little self-consciously, climbed out of his car, dodged the highway traffic, threw back his shoulders and launched into what newsmen had dubbed The Speech. He could time The Speech for anywhere from 18 to 50 minutes, depending on the size and estimated temper of his audiences. Sometimes a few score, sometimes a hundred-odd men, women & children stood staring and listening. The horns of a public-address system, mounted on a sedan, lifted the Senator's flat Ohio voice above the din of Ohio's Main Streets...
Preventive Medicine. In the slums, lone children, first children and last children, say the Gluecks, are least apt to become delinquent. It is the between-children who are most likely to show the early danger signs: temper tantrums, profanity, obscene language, and, in one case out of three, overt acts of delinquency before they turn eight...