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Last week Franklin Roosevelt, as President of the United States, heard news of a matter about which plain citizens could only speculate. It was word of the powerful British Fleet (see p. 16). Like an echo blurring as it bounded back, that historic whisper turned into rumors that did not quite make sense, statements that did not hang together, fragmentary speculation whose point people could not quite catch. And it was drowned out by the clamorous news from Philadelphia, where on the sixth ballot of the 22nd Republican National Convention, Wendell Willkie of Indiana was nominated for President...
...With his whole band massed behind him, the Brigadier twirls his drumsticks faster & faster, whirls them over his head, down to his ankles throughout the number. He can catch his sticks at any beat he wants, change pace with offbeat effects, shade his tone from a crash to a whisper...
...Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...
...years ago at a captains' dinner, Commissioner Valentine shot a question straight from the shoulder: "What makes you men so jittery? What are you afraid of?" From a nearby table came a sibilant whisper: "The speaker." To police his police, Commissioner Valentine has a special "shoo-fly" (confidential) squad. Since he went into office in September 1934 he has dismissed some 300 men, officially rebuked 3,000, fined 8,000. Most suicides, think the cops, are crushed between the Commissioner's sea-green honesty and granite discipline and the temptations that beset a Manhattan cop: the numbers games...
Most of the actions manifested by Mr. Russell are countenanced by neither the moral, nor legal code. Many are classified as the types of crime that decent people mention only in a whisper when it becomes necessary to refer to them...