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...Requests made of two movie stars by 1,821 fan writers included: a cake of soap, a "piece of gum you have chewed," a cigaret butt, three hairs, a bicycle, and permission to name a pet flea after the star...
...revolt was on: part of it led by men who were not opposed to intervention, but were opposed to moving against enemies abroad without first cracking down on defense strikes at home. They were bolting out of anger at John L. Lewis, and the Administration's pat-a-cake labor policy. Some of these could be wheedled or hammered into line, some could be bought with a promise of a crackdown on Lewis. But the biggest opposition came from men who on each measure had searched their minds and their hearts honestly and with humility, who wanted always...
...cocky, quick-witted, high-strung and footloose. A typical product of Harlem's sidewalks, he loves boogie-woogie, would rather dance than eat. "I can't get that boy to eat enough to keep a flea alive," moans Trainer Gainford. "He lives off hot dogs, ice cream, cake and dancing...
...jobs: his moon-faced brother-in-law, H. H. ("Daddy") Kung, Finance Minister and Vice Premier. In June Dr. Kung, who dearly loves to address conferences, herded together an earnest conclave of 250 local officials from all over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices and dugouts, Kung's bomb-battered underlings pieced together the machinery of China's greatest reform in centuries. Chiang Kai-shek quietly increased the local gendarmes all through Szechwan, just in case there...
...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...