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Adlai Stevenson was invited to become honorary president of the National Association of Gagwriters. His reply: "It is with the utmost disappointment that I feel obliged to decline your engaging and flattering invitation . . . That I could even have been considered for this distinction lifts my weary heart...
...announcing the open meeting, the group said that "a cessation of hostilities in Korea is of the utmost importance to everyone because of the great danger of the war spreading." It added: "We realize that there are many differences among students . . . for ending the fighting in Korea...
Girl (letting her tractor stand idle for a moment): How wonderful it is to work on such a beautiful night under the full moon and do one's utmost to save petrol...
Clear & Steady. He became a founder and later director of a new sort of school-"an institution for the continued education of the educated." As Johnson saw it, "the educated . . . bore a heavy social responsibility ... It was therefore of the utmost importance that the educated mind remain clear and steady." But unfortunately, the good minds seemed to him to be the first to be eroded by "torrents of emotion-bearing catchwords." What the U.S. needed, he decided, was a place where the educated could refresh themselves with reflection and study...
Pressed for action, Casey said: "The government is doing its utmost to uncover the nest of traitors which exists somewhere or other in our public service...