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County; and two Riley nieces, Miss Lesley Payne and Mrs. Harry Miesse, the wife of an avid local tax expert...
Prize money depends on the number of dogs entered in the class, but it seldom covers the cost of transporting the animals from town to town. For that reason, dog shows are a rich man's affair, and the lot of the avid exhibitor, as well as that of his pots, is not an easy...
Certainly men such as Clement Attlee are not avid for arbitrary power. But whatever they do or do not seek, it is a fact that Socialism destroys some of the bases of personal independence. Britain's strict labor control laws have been rarely invoked in the last five years. So far, only 657 applications for permission to change jobs have been actually refused, but the laws remain on the books and there is no doubt that thousands of workers are hesitant to change their jobs because of them. Some Laborites, e.g., Nye Bevan, regularly use the vocabulary of class...
Eric Williams' "true account" of one of World War II's most original escapes (he is the "Peter Howard" of the story) sold more than 200,000 copies in England last year. An equally avid U.S. appetite for well-paced excitement could make The Wooden Horse one of the U.S. bestsellers of the year...
Businessmen recently had been receiving reassuring clucks from Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, but that might be expected of a man with Sawyer's business background. Last week none other than Leon Keyserling, for 17 years an avid New Dealer and Fair Dealer, looked up from a new study of business and announced a new "trend of thinking." The Government, said Keyserling, approves of businessmen; it loves them just as much, say, as it loves the farmers and organized labor...