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...City," became a London businessman. He was named a director of the Westminster Bank, and by 1936 valued his family estates at some $15 million. He was elected to Parliament in 1927 and in the House of Commons joined forces with the fastest-rising star in the Tory firmament: fellow Etonian Anthony Eden. He became Eden's deputy, and an Under Secretary of State...
...NATO was without form, and void; so was created SACEUR. Alone in the darkness, SACEUR was joined by SUSREP-NADPB, CINCNELM and EB. Soon the firmament radiated JAMAG, MAPAG, MAAG and CPUBINFO and there was Light...
...gaudy revolutionary career in Britain, France, Russia, China and Indo-China. Today, Ho Chi Minh is a great figurehead whose prestige as a "liberator" still stands high, even outside the areas he controls. But his star in the Communist firmament has waned. His health is poor (tuberculosis). He has traveled too far, and seen too much, and talked to too many people to have the rigidly closed type of mind required of a top party militant in time of war. He is one of those international Communist bosses-France's Maurice Thorez is another-who retain titular leadership mainly...
...Hollywood firmament, a starlet is a heavenly body twinkling only fleetingly on the screen but readily visible in publicity stills. Once in a while an ambitious starlet rebels against this fate. Three years ago Barbara Bates did just that. A wartime pin-up favorite while on the Universal lot, Barbara moved over to Warners', where she got her first speaking parts; her dramatic aspirations thus encouraged, she balked at posing for any more leg-art pictures...
...heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge...