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...Oberth, now an ardent Nazi, emerged from his seclusion and called on Colonel Albert Kesselring (now Field...
...Ardent defense witnesses included the egocentric gossip columnist of the London Daily Herald, Hannen Swaffer, whose story was that he and a committee of four others had once tested Mrs. Duncan's spectral powers, tied her securely with handcuffs, sashcord and thread, watched her wriggle loose in three minutes. Concluded Swaffer: "There was ectoplasm, but no one appeared. Obviously she had been released by Albert, the spirit guide...
...Craftsman William Morris-all of whom appear in Author Cameron's novel. The hero is a young proletarian named Arthur Cullen. When young Cullen heard that William Morris planned to mitigate the horrors of industrial progress by reviving medieval handicrafts, he became the great man's ardent disciple...
More likely, political observers concluded, the South is merely hypersensitive to Washington "interference" in Southern affairs, has decided to hit back. Even Dixie's most ardent New Dealers are tired of Yankee advice on the Negro problem, the poll tax and States' rights. Southern delegates will go to the Democratic convention in Chicago next month with a list of minimum demands: i) less Washington meddling below the Mason-Dixon line; 2) a Southern Vice President-or any Vice President but Henry Wallace; 3) a re-turn to the two-thirds rule, under which Southerners for many decades exercised...
Among President Hutchins' most ardent supporters is the University's gangling, witty literary handyman, Milton Mayer. Mayer is a onetime Chicago news and publicity man, studied under Hutchins at the University, later helped him teach his famed course on the 100 Best Books. Wrote Mayer in Wisconsin's weekly Progressive...