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...Liberace cannot give enough concerts to please all his fans, many of whom probably never heard of Paderewski. He has sold a phenomenal 250,000 albums of his records, appears on 100 TV stations (more than I Love Lucy), and by the testimony of his sponsors (mostly banks and biscuit companies) has directly accounted for "several million dollars worth of business...
...companies represents a cross section of both the nation's industry and its best-known names. In addition to such old valley residents as chemical makers Du Pont, Hercules and Atlas, the long list of newcomers includes Chrysler (with its $19 million tank plant at Newark, Del.), National Biscuit (a $10 million plant), Colorado Fuel & Iron (a $50 million works). Among other new industries: textiles, plastics, rubber, smelting...
...supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta's name has been substituted for that of Jesus Christ. Charged as the "leading spirit" of the Mau Mau movement, Kenyatta was packed off to a "not very comfortable" billet in the North Kenya desert-miles & miles of sunbaked lava crumbling like broken biscuit. With him, under guard, went most of the staff of K.A.U. What Next? Governor Baring's anti-Mau Mau drive seemed at first sight to be working-though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant." Yet few Kenyans believe that force alone will stamp...
...living partly on sea biscuit, he managed to earn a Ph.D. at Columbia. Later he got a job at Bryn Mawr, published his first textbook, wrote a delicately worded book on prostitution for a group of Manhattan reformers called the Committee of Fifteen. After a brief return engagement at Columbia, he headed west ("You are making a great mistake," cried Nicholas Murray Butler). He taught at Nebraska, in Texas, in Chicago, became head of the economics department at Stanford, finally returned east to teach at Cornell. With Walter Lippmann, he also became one of the first editors...
...Humphreys of the U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812. Wrote the chaplain: "The last bone of fresh beef we brought out from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...