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...Captain Elliott Roosevelt, fully uniformed, wearing the shoulder aiguillettes of Presidential aides, seemed to exasperate many a U.S. citizen who likes everything about the President but his family. When Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, turned up suddenly in Washington, all these cumulative exasperations were expressed by a local wit who snarled: "Beaverbrook came over to see if the British had left anything...
Columnist F(ranklin) P(ierce) A(dams)-better known to plain citizens as the beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...
Chicago-born, F. P. A. started out as an insurance salesman, switched to newspapering as a result of selling George Ade a fire insurance policy. F. P. A.'s chief equipment was a knowledge of Gilbert & Sullivan, a ready wit, a talent for drawing out other wits' talents gratis. When the Herald Tribune wanted to cut his pay (1937), he walked out, commenting: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more...
Today when George VI visits bombed sections of London and other cities, Herbert Morrison is usually at his side. Morrison, "once a rabid socialist" is now Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security. "The King," says Author Kraus, "likes Mr. Morrison's sharp wit and his tight-lipped but so much the more fanatic devotion to England." Morrison likes the King, regrets that he already holds so exalted a job. Morrison, who also runs the London County Council, once enviously sighed: "What an excellent Alderman of London the King would make...
...amusing thing about moving pictures," wrote voluble William Saroyan, "is the enormous number of nonentities who work together to make something any normal half-wit would prefer not to make in the first place...