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...Roosevelt sent him to China as a transportation expert on the Burma Road. After the war, as Arnstein sat in his paneled Manhattan office under his certificate from the International Game Fish Association (he holds the world's record for catching the heaviest bone fish on a three-thread line), he began to worry about his 1,800 employees. Would any of their kids get to college? Arnstein decided to ask three friends (including Journalist Quentin Reynolds) which children of Arnstein employees best deserved a college education each year...
...possible 1,000 thread-bare European students will be wearing cast-off Brooks Brothers suits and other college-wear accoutrements shortly...
...choice but to repudiate Candidate Wallace even if it meant losing some left-wing votes for Candidate Truman. Ten hours after his appearance before Congress, the President let Wallace have it. At a Saint Patrick's Day dinner in Manhattan, the President cut the last thin thread between him and the man he had fired from his Cabinet. Said Harry Truman: "I do not want and 1 will not accept the political support of Henry Wallace and his Communists. If joining them or permitting them to join me is the price of victory, I recommend defeat. These...
...respect for the unique integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with a quality which had it been transposed into a consistent thread for the entire novel would have spelled far greater stature...
...unicorns and delicate ladies in heavy gowns. From that high point of fantasy, the art gradually declined to the 18th Century confections of pastoral sex and sweetness designed by Boucher and Oudry. To imitate such painted designs, painstaking weavers had used as many as 30,000 different shades of thread...