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...bitter that hissing interrupted all newsreels, but Sumner merely ordered his ushers to inform all hissers that they were disturbing other patrons. One evening he himself noticed a man who was hissing "like a steampipe." He asked the man to stop. The man answered "You allow people to applaud don't you. Well then, I'm going to hiss...
...their limousines. But the people poured on-platoons of lawyers, doctors and merchants, wearing tarbooshes, mingled with battalions of factory workers and street peddlers in skull caps. Copts, Moslems and sheiks marched arm in arm under banners showing the cross and the crescent joined. When spectators began to applaud, the demonstrators shushed them into silence; the sound, reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, was a low hum like locusts in a field of grain. Overhead flew banners screaming "Get out, dirty English!" Posters showed British soldiers bayoneted through the throat. When the marchers came within hailing distance of the King...
Though the brothers Taft have often differed, brother Charlie misses no opportunity to applaud brother Bob. (In 1940 Charles Taft masterminded the campaign which almost won Bob the presidential nomination.) Bob seems content to leave Charlie out of the limelight. Bob's Republican orthodoxy recently moved him to say that if Senator Joe McCarthy is nominated for re-election he would support him, but underlined: "I never take sides in a Republican primary." At the news of brother Charlie's intentions, he maintained his frigidly correct attitude. Said he: "I'm not going to take any part...
From the quiet, hardly obtrusive pile of Gothic buildings known as Princeton that squat on the New Jersey plains, have issued since its founding in 1746, men who have made the World shake, applaud, and learn. The university has produced men that made the country in which it is situated free, and shaped its growth...
Greene's perfervid admirers will be completely satisfied with his handling of this double difficulty; but even his critics can admire his nerve and applaud his effort: for how else can you hope to hear the truth about human beings unless you overhear them talking to themselves...