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...race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past...
...farm on nearby Lisbon Ridge. When he grew up he bought the farm, worked as an all-round newsman on the Brunswick Record. When its publisher died, a banker friend suggested that he take over the Lisbon weekly. Gould proposed a partnership to Printer J. W. ("Jess") Goud (rhymes with food), who seemed, after the Maine fashion, completely uninterested. Next morning Goud showed up with his eyeshade and line gauge, ready to go into business...
...Gould & Goud's editorial staff is blonde Marjorie Beech, imported from England, where she was a telegraph operator in the WRENS. Because names make the Enterprise's news, Marjorie is working hard to develop its squad of eight rural correspondents, all hired because they had no experience. Last week, on one of his new radio programs, Editor Gould had all eight in for an ad-libbed chat. "How many people in Methodist Corner?" he asked one. "About 15 families," she told him. And how did she get the news?,Well, by telephone, mostly. "Are they...
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