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...other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...
...Some of them are particularly ardent dancers and even become professional dancers, despite or perhaps owing to their frigidity. Others are sculptors, potters, nurses or thieves. If they are not doctors or dentists themselves, they 'happen' to attract their dentist, whose advances then fill them with horror. Some have an affair with a spy or have in some way been associated with espionage...
...brain. But Italo Nofri also had a wife Bruna, whom he called "the prettiest girl in all Subbiano." Despite the fact that her husband and his friend had succeeded in converting a majority of her fellow villagers in the little Apennine town to Communism, Bruna remained an ardent Roman Catholic. She even insisted that their son be sent to study in a Catholic school, and despite his own deep convictions. Italo was proud of the honors the boy won at school...
...most ardent admirers often prefer to remember gruff, octogenarian Colonel Ewart Scott Grogan as he was in the old days, when rugged individualism and a respect for white-skinned authority were the stuff of which empires were made. While still an undergraduate at Cambridge, "Grogs" Grogan earned the envy of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape...
Grogs's manners improved not a jot in the years that followed, and his firm voice never lost its strength. An ardent believer in the future of Kenya, he became one of the colony's richest men, but he never ceased to flay those with whom he disagreed. His suggested solution in the early days of Mau Mau terrorism was characteristically simple: "Catch a hundred of these rascals and hang 25 of them in front of the others . . . they are just black baboons." This view outraged the Colonial Office, and left-wing sentiment in Britain, but the government...