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Testified his ex-secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Runge: "Mr. Lamb said that while in Russia [in 1936, as a tourist-writer], he attended a Communist school . . . when Earl Browder was there." Lamb pooh-poohs the assertion. A Toledo cement finisher swore that he saw Lamb give money to Lincoln House (the city's Communist headquarters) at its dedication...
...buried at regular intervals since World War II, was still setting new records. Housing starts in August, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics, totaled 111,000, up 19% from a year ago. In Dallas the pace was so fast that there was a shortage of such supplies as wallboard, cement and plumbing equipment. In Levittown, Pa., where Mass Builder William J. Levitt showed off a new three-bedroom, two-living-room house (with garage) for $10,990, some 30,000 people stood in line to inspect it. In one week Levitt wrote orders for more than 375 houses, representing about...
With the ready-to-assemble equipment for a cement factory and a steel forging plant in her hold, the 1,275-ton Honduran freighter Omar Babun steamed out of Philadelphia one day last May on a coastwise voyage to Havana. Off the Carolina coast, the Babun ran into a full gale. Her cargo shook loose, tearing away the deck supports and ripping her hull. Captain José Villa ordered the ship beached on the desolate Outer Banks, 25 miles above Cape Hatteras. That night Captain Villa and his crew were taken off on a Coast Guard lifeline, and the Babun...
...driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued onward. The driver of the Lincoln attempted to turn back . . . apparently to avoid a cement post, and the left front wheel of the vehicle dug into the sand, flipping the Lincoln on its top upon the highway...
...secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story and reporters, radio-TV men and diplomats outnumbered the Goodson & Todman agents, who claimed first crack at the athlete because, after all, they had thought up the idea and paid his passage...