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Preacher Scott went back. Last week, motherly Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, whose well had supplied the parsonage for 29 years, cut off his water supply. When Scott went to the hardware store for a new bottle of cooking gas, the clerk told him he had none. The druggist refused to sell him anything. Newspapers were all "spoken for." Signs reading "We Don't Want Scott" appeared in windows...
...also made sense to invite the Russians into the great enterprise. Bevin and Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
...three days across the border the President had conducted no state business, but had done much to foster good-neighborly relations-just what he wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
...fatherless family moved to the grimy city of Leeds. Young Read attended a spartan city school whose only romanticism lay in the library's collection of Rider Haggard. At 15, he became a bank clerk (at ?20 a year) and a "true-blue Tory," at 17 a disciple of Alfred Tennyson and William Blake. At 22, he was swept off to World War I-stopping off long enough in London to hand a publisher his first volume of poems...
...railroader, Coulter started as a track hand during the summer while attending Colby College in Waterville, Me. After graduation he took a job as clerk with the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Co. By 1942 he was chief traffic officer and vice president of a trucking subsidiary. St. Louis knew him as one of the nattiest dressers who ever slipped into a blue double-breasted suit...