PERSONAL GLIMPSES XIV

From Reader's Digest

Editorial in Detroit News 

 

Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly. An aide once asked him how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week. The great man replied that it was because this week he knew better. 

 

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Secretary's Memory Jogger 

 

Helena Rubinstein, the famous beauty expert, once remarked, "I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

 

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Table Talk 

 

Sir Richard Pim, on the day of the election that removed Prime Minister Winston Churchill from office in 1945, went to see Churchill to tell him the results of the election. When Sir Richard told Churchill the bad news, he responded: "They have a perfect right to kick me out. That's democracy! That's what we've

been fighting for!"