Born Yesterday Page #5

Well, I think we're all

a bit sentimental.

Yeah.

Well, it's a free country.

Do you play bridge, Mrs. Brock?

No. Only gin.

- I beg your pardon.

- Gin rummy.

Oh, yes, of course.

I was going to ask you to join

a few of us girls. We meet now and then.

I don't play bridge.

- You could learn!

- I don't think so!

Sure, you could.

She couldn't play gin till I learned

her. Now she beats my brains out.

How are you fixed for time tomorrow?

I wanted to bring Harry over.

- 10:
00 all right?

- That's pretty early for me.

I'll say.

- 11:
00?

- Okay.

- I can drop by here, if that's okay.

- Sure. It's right on your way.

We can discuss the entire operation

and get a head start.

Wanna wash your hands

or anything, honey?

I hope you're free Friday night.

Doing a little dinner.

- A few people I want Harry to meet.

- And who want to meet him, I'm sure.

I want to thank you, Mr. Brock,

for everything.

Call me Harry,

will ya, Congressman?

I haven't written you about it, Harry,

because... Well, you understand.

You know what I'm interested in.

Scrap iron. I wanna buy it and sell it.

I don't wanna get stuck

by falling prices.

- I have a copy of the preliminary...

- Give it to me fast.

I didn't come down here

to do paperwork.

The way I work,

it's every man for himself.

You gotta get the other guy

before he gets you.

Exactly.

What I got in mind is

an operatin' combo all over the world.

There's enough in it for everybody.

Up till now, I'm doing just fine.

Everybody understands everybody.

- I wanna get movin'.

- In legislation of this kind...

That, to me, is just a lot of hot air.

I ain't talkin' about peanuts.

This jam the committee's

gotten itself into.

Give them enough rope.

I've said so...

The trouble with these

professional do-gooders is...

They never seem to know when to stop.

I've said that...

There's a way to get this thing done.

It's up to you and Jim to find out how.

Yes, the Hedges/Keller Amendment,

for example...

guarantees government support of scrap

iron price levels, foreign or domestic.

- We're trying to get it through quickly.

- See that you do.

That's why I'm here...

to see that I get what I paid for.

How do things look?

- Generally?

- Yes, generally.

I said to Sam only last week,

this country wilt soon have to decide...

if the people

are going to run the government...

or the government run the people.

- That's good, sound thinking, Norval.

- Thank you.

- Worthy of Holmes.

- Great man, Holmes.

My personal god.

Who?

- Oliver Wendell Holmes.

- A wonderful man.

He gonna be here Friday night?

- I don't think so.

- Too bad.

- Well, we mustn't keep you.

- No, we mustn't.

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