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Once Miller got in to see Jesse Jones-a visit that ended quickly with both men hopping mad. Afterward he wrote to Jones: "You are so cloistered I do not think you know what is going on in your office. . . . RFC's officiousness, ill will bad temper and manners have interested me." When he heard that one of Jones's secretaries had described him as "obnoxious and a nuisance," he wrote in Hickory News: "The reason I am a nuisance . . . is that I remind these men of their carelessness, inefficiency and incompetence." Such colorful invective appealed to anti...
...since he was 18. By the time ailing Fuad I died in 1936, the Wafd and other constitutional nationalists had finally wrung a return to parliamentary government from him. Before Farouk had been King two years he took advantage of a Wafd split and nominated his own ministers. Soon afterward, with the support of religious leaders and impoverished fellahin, he made Egyptian policy his own. One day it looks pro-British; another, pro-Italian; but it is always pro-Farouk...
...afternoon last week, Milles's singing sculpture was unveiled. In bristly English Sculptor Milles explained his statue, wiped his forehead when he had finished. Said he afterward: "A sculptor likes to vork, you know. But dis making speeches iss much harder. Yust as soon as I open my mouth I tink I am saying vot iss wrong. I feel much better now dis iss ofer...
...Boston newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment...
...hold, dropped into the black water. Another followed-another, and another. When a man dropped, the others heard a brief thrashing in the water, then silence. One who let go was 60-year-old Mandea LeBlanc, who had hoped this would be his last voyage to the banks. Shortly afterward, Captain Wilson followed...