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...Morgan to be able to inquire at a dinner party: "Railroad deal, Mr. Morgan? What's all this about?" Mike gleefully quotes a Morgan man on Adventurer Mike Hedges: "Goddamit, I never saw a youngster with such a brass neck." Moving on to Mexico, Mike Hedges fell afoul of Guerrilla Leader Pancho Villa, and-as he tells it-narrowly escaped execution as an American spy. To prove his English nationality, he flashed Villa an orthodox Guardsman's salute and sang God Save the King-whereupon Villa delightedly conscripted Mike for ten months' service as a guerrilla leader...
Mendelsohn joined the growing number of retailers who had run afoul of one of Britain's thriving, all-powerful monopolistic "price rings." In East Devon, when one of 60 bakers refused to go along and raise his bread price by a halfpenny, the others ganged up, threatened to have him put out of business. To a Birmingham grocer who cut the margarine price for old age pensioners and another in Cheshire who did the same with tea, went letters from wholesalers warning them to stop, else they would get no more supplies...
...babies were wrapped in newspapers and thousands of Berliners froze to death, the Altmanns survived (though they would not admit it even to themselves) on the proceeds of Fritz's black-marketeering, on Frances Faviell's charity and on Ursula's sex appeal. Then Fritz fell afoul of the West Berlin police and fled to the Communists. Old Herr Altmann died, and shortly afterwards, Lilli collapsed while dancing. Though her mother would not believe it, frail little Lilli had had an abortion. She died murmuring "Vova," the nickname of some unknown Russian...
Noted composer Aaron Copland ran afoul of the University of Colorado's fear of "controversial" personalities last year...
...from his own masters, after three decades of subservience, came only denunciations. For he had run afoul of Nicholas ("Nico") Zachariades, the real strong man of Greek Communism, who operates from the safety of the satellite countries...