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...summers the family traveled widely, both in the U.S. and abroad. One summer the three boys were packed off to a ranch in Wyoming. There the cowboys dubbed little Dick "Suds." called Hank "Lather," and Mennen "Soapy." Much to Mrs. Williams' distress. Mennen's nickname stuck with him from that date...
...raged over the day's headlines from Washington. Soapy thought of himself as a liberal Republican, but a close friend, Jim Denison (now a successful Los Angeles lawyer), convinced him that there could be no such animal. Soapy flipped resoundingly into the New Deal camp, much to the distress of his family. (Elma Williams, in moments of political outrage, still sometimes calls her son a D.D., for damned Democrat...
...King's Highway in pathless China." In 20 years Francis Ford increased his flock from 9,000 to 20,000, built schools, hostels and churches. When World War II came, he stuck by his post, aiding Chinese guerrillas, helping downed Allied airmen escape, relieving war refugees in distress...
...large, four-engine Africa-bound plane was carrying six crew members and 51 passengers, members of the Sudan administration and their families who had been vacationing in Britain. Fifteen miles off the coast of Sicily, the pilot shot up a red distress flare: the plane had developed engine trouble. The craft, a Hermes, crashed into the sea three miles offshore. As it hit the water, the great plane split in half. Then what seemed like a miracle occurred...
...leitmotif that plays repeatedly throughout the book is Chambers anger and distress that all "the best people" heaped muck on him and sided with Hiss. The author wastes no opportunity to demonstrate the presence of the socially elite in the Communist camp. He frequently singles out Harvard which he appears to regard as an exclusive sanctuary for the rich and well born...