We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.

He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.

During the questions and answers, Ivan calmly, slickly explained away his change of heart by saying, This young man is very persuasive, that an old codger like himself needed fresh ideas to keep himself from getting codgier.

After working as a copy boy and then a reporter at The New York Journal-American, he joined The New York Herald Tribune as a night rewriteman.