The Earrings
The survivor of many Washington dinners, DEAN ACHESON became an expert on their pecking order and how to cope with it.
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The Holiday
Holidays were all too rare for State Department people during the hectic war years. DEAN ACHESON describes an extemporized attempt to lake a day off.
Of Mice and Mail
One would have to go back a far way in history to find a Secretary of State who wrote with the grace and wit of DEAN ACHESON, and in this deft reminiscent essay Mr. Acheson describes his early efforts, when a junior in the Department, to cut his way through the red tape and illiteracy of “official English.”