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Last month, when news reached Leopoldville that 19 Roman Catholic missionaries had been massacred at Kongolo in northern Katanga by mutinying Congolese troops. Lawson volunteered to fly to the terror-stricken town to rescue one missionary who reportedly had survived. Lawson's two Swedish pilots landed their Beaver plane at Kongolo's torn-up airfield, and Lawson threw himself out the door to avoid fire from snipers. "I was very lonely and very scared," he said. "I picked up my stick and strolled...
Guinness Managing Director Sir Hugh Beaver missed everything in sight. Abashed. Sir Hugh tried to find out just how fast those elusive birds had been flying. He failed. But in his search he stumbled on a promotional opportunity: since many equally obscure points are disputed over pints of stout, why not publish a book for Britain's 73,000 pubs? It would keep the company's name, and product, on everybody's lips...
...transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking and do not want to bother with clay pigeons; A. Sulka & Co. is selling men's handmade leopardskin gloves lined with beaver ($125). His and Her vicuna lounging robes ($1,100 a set), and an ebony walking stick topped with a solid gold handle ($550). Rocking chairs, popularized by the President, are moving well. For the bewildered male, Cleveland's Halle Bros. provides a Pandora's Box of women...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...
Totally animated, Robert Morse never merely speaks lines. He dives after an ordinary joke with a twisting one-and-a-half gainer and makes it look like a pearl. With his mischievous small-boy charm, he is the most ingratiating eager beaver who ever gnawed through someone else's rung on the ladder of success...