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...fired with new enthusiasm for it every time Confidential ran another article praising him or attacking his enemies. (Harrison obligingly became a contributor to Winchell's Damon Runyon Memorial Fund.) Harrison also found a way to use Confidential articles over and over again in another of his magazines, Whisper ("The Stones Behind the Headlines...
...fixed warily on the untrustworthy Italians. But then the Venetian magic begins; she throws open her pensione window to a vista of blue sky, green water and honey-colored walls. She walks along the canals, dazed by the murmurous dusk, by the majesty of campanile and palace, by the whisper of a distant guitar. Few actresses in films could equal Hepburn's evocation of aching loneliness on her first night in Venice as she wanders, forlorn and proud, like a primly starched ghost in a city of lovers...
...With a flick of his thumb, Johnson signaled to presiding senators whom to recognize-speakers who would not antagonize Southerners or be trapped by Republicans. A twirl of Johnson's lifted forefinger, the airman's signal to rev up, means speed on the Senate floor. A whisper from Lyndon during roll call, and the clerk shifts into a slow, minor key. Sometimes it takes an expert to tell whether the Senate is rushing or loitering. But even Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, no expert, spotted Johnson's delay last week during the wait for Humphrey, and gruffly declared...
...that, however, was now forgotten. "There's nothing like the threat of annihilation," said one Laborite, "to bring chaps together." In a quiet meeting of the parliamentary Labor party, ousted Bevan was taken back into the fold without a whisper of opposition, and in the party manifesto outlining Labor's platform, Nye Sevan's stand against the nuclear bomb took first place, followed by the usual biting condemnation of everything Tory...
...race-Robert Dear-Stable whisper...