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Last week he looked tired. But weariness sat on him lightly, like a film of ash over a smoldering fire. Powerful, solid, imperturbable, he sat at his desk with an air of utter confidence-the alert, nonchalant confidence of a skilled worker moving swiftly in a routine task. The crushing responsibilities of 1940 he wore as familiarly, as easily as his speckly seersucker suit, buttoned into thick wrinkles over his paunch...
Around midnight. Bones men disperse quietly to their rooms, may not utter a word, even to their roommates, until next morning. Best-known tradition is that a Bones man must leave the room when an outsider mentions his society's name. Favorite gag in Harvard Hasty Pudding shows: someone says "Skull & Bones" and a tramp jumps up, stalks...
...survivor, Thomas H. Jones, said later: "I thought the world was coming to an end. . . ." Said Dr. Harold Thompson: "There was a terrible smash, bang and roar, followed by a queer grinding. ... I was tossed along the aisle of the car. There was utter darkness. The most remarkable thing was the great silence that followed...
...moment a dull cloud of misunderstanding hovers over us. But clouds blow away before a clear breeze from the upper skies. If some leader of a political party, some candidate for the presidency, had the courage of Bishop Lawrence to utter plain truths, the cloud would disperse and thousands would leap to his call...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...