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...from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...
...nations will, in the same spirit of goodwill, view our American policies which are aimed to overcome an unprecedented economic situation at home. . . . "That is why I do not regard the Economic Conference as a failure. . . . You can count on our continued efforts toward world rehabilitation because we are con vinced that a continuation of the work of the World Economic Conference will result in practical good in many fields of joint endeavor...
...York Times magazine section on how the State Department is run; Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. railroad adviser to Reconstruction Finance Corp., an article in the New York Times on the new securities bill; Louis McHenry Howe, Secretary to the President, a radio interview on budget-balancing. Secretary Howe con- cluded his broadcast with a half-sobbing account of how some woman had wanted to name her kittens after him but he had lost her letter-and, oh, he was so terribly upset about those poor little kittens. ¶"I love the U. S. Navy more than any other branch...
...greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...order to read the pages on myself." Though he knew it was a weakness, he was often attracted to patent medicines. Once he took six boxes of anti-fat pills, which upset his heart. His doctor mildly rebuked him, said "that I oughtn't to take medicines without con-suiting him. And of course he is quite right. It is perfectly staggering the idiotic things even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high as $75,000) he was not extravagant; but he had foibles. "In the morning, early...