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Neither is subtle, complex or daring. Whitney is a well-read man who likes to lace his speeches with literary allusions. Johnston (nobody calls him Al) is a plain, blunt man who almost never makes a speech, puts on a front of gruff irascibility...
...Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change, but the rhythm recurs." For Iran the rhythm of history was almost metronomic...
...Santayana's students. He went into business in Chicago to make money quickly, made it, retired, went to China, hired a junk and sailed leisurely up & down the great rivers. Eventually he settled in the British West Indies as a fruit grower, and married a slight, wise, well-read Negro girl...
Thanks to Lt. Beackham's pointed reception of last week's guest columnist "The Bag" is back in its place. After witnessing a three hour dissertation on senility by the master, now nearing four years and twenty, all potential contributors weighed their 90 averages against the clamor of a well-read public, and have reneged "till the smoke clears." But we advocates of a free press stand in open defiance, from behind our cloak of anonymity, of course...
Friends. Voronov was witty, shrewd, well-read. He made friends easily. Among them were Klim Voroshilov, the pudgy ex-miner who became War Commissar, and a young air officer named Alexander Novikov, who seemed destined for great ness. Among them, too, was Joseph Stalin...