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Despite his stellar role as a dupe, said Shaw, he had never joined the Communist Party. He was invited to join in 1946, assumed a "fantastic alias" to get into four "cloak & dagger" meetings, finally decided that he did not like the party's denial of free speech. Wiping tears from his eyes with both hands, Shaw said he had never meant to be disloyal. Said he: "I want to do everything I can, as I always have, to defend American institutions and American folkways. This country has been very kind to me. I started out as a minority...
...windbreaker and dark brown corduroy trousers fastened with a gaily embroidered native belt. In Kenya such belts are called kenyattas, and from his fondness for wearing them, the man had derived his last name. His first name had been of his own choosing, the Kikuyu word for an unsheathed dagger or a poised, burning spear: Jomo...
...Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, who thanked the President for the U.S. aid to his country during the recent floods. ¶Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and second of King Ibn Saud's 30 odd sons, who brought Ike an 111n. gold dagger, a black burnoose...
...warrior caste's ancient ways. Walter's India-born father is a Harvard man, and Walter is a graduate of Tufts. It seemed only logical to cease wearing kachh (pants cut off at the knee), kara (iron bangles on the wrist) and a kirpan (a small dagger). But Walter has always observed two of the five "Ks" dictated by his religion: he wears kes (unshorn hair) and carries a khanga (a ceremonial comb...
...hand that plunges the latest rubber dagger into the heart of Hollywood belongs to no neophyte; Author Carson won the Academy Award in 1937 for coscripting A Star Is Born. But his novel has a chance for life only while Franklin P. Silversmith, his egomaniacal robber baron, struts over its sets...