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Back in 1911 a tousle-haired, 18-year-old country boy named Huey Long, from the "redneck" hills of Louisiana's Winn Parish, walked into the dingy Union Street office of the New Orleans Item one day and asked for a job. Said Marshall Ballard, editor of the Item then & now: "I'll give you $10 a week." Said Huey, grinning as he walked out : "That's not enough. Keep your eye on me-I'm going places...
Barry Corvall (sulky, hulky Joel McCrea) is a trig young U. S. diplomat in Morocco when civil war strands dark, sultry-eyed, plump-lipped Brenda Ballard (Newcomer Brenda Marshall) in his consulate. When Barry returns to Washington for a stretch at the foreign service school, he takes femme fatale Brenda with him. Though she is more suspicious as a woman with no past at all than many a woman with one, Career Diplomat Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold...
...McBride, Princeton '40, representing the Princetonian; E. A. Ballard II, Yale '40 of the News, and Charles N. Pollak II '40 of the CRIMSON head the undergraduate committee handling the meeting...
...Ballard and harp, custodians of the most cockeyed California cult of all-The Mighty I AM Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration...
Richard H. Abernathy, Jr. '41 of Oak Park, Illinois; John D. Adams '39, of West Brattleboro, Vermont; Arthur B. Allen '41, of Charleston, West Virginia; David L. Anderson '41, of Portland, Oregon; Walter J. bate '39, of Richmond, Indiana; David W. Ballard '39, of Peterborough, New Hampshire; Fred Benyamin '41, of Columbia, South Carolina; Robert L. Berg '40, of Spokane, Washington; Charles P. Berger Jr. '41, of Jackson, Michigan; George F. Bogardus '39 of Des Moines, Iowa...