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Priestley Sentiment. Many character types from earlier Priestley novels reappear in the Elmdown Aircraft factory: Sammy Hamp, whose limp and withered arm accentuates the humility that makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
...beaten, but old Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith went right on campaigning. On the night of South Carolina's primary day last week, a contingent of his friends motored to Columbia from Orangeburg, 35 miles away. They wore flaming red shirts, in memory of oldtime General Wade Hamp ton, who drove the carpetbaggers back north and preserved "white supremacy." Senator Smith put on one of the shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds. There, beside General Hampton's equestrian statue, he closed his campaign with a ringing speech...
Score by innings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Harvard 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 5 11 3 New Hamp. 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 6 2 * Ran for Gannett in eighth inning...
...Hamp's father was a cook who liked his calling. Apprenticed in a Paris patisserie, young Pierre found the work hard and long, the food scanty. But he was a good worker, got ahead. Developing an understanding for the oven, he discovered that he could read while watching it and, un like King Alfred, not burn his cakes. When Anarchist Emile Henry's bomb exploded 50 yards from his cellar workroom (Feb. 12, 1894) it made Hamp begin to wonder whether he wanted to stay a pastry cook all his life...
When a Swiss fellow-worker bullied him, Hamp profited by the Anglo-Saxon atmosphere to take boxing lessons, bloodied the Swiss's nose. Hamp learned English, read whatever he could get. "I went through all printed scraps in lavatories-in fact, I owe a large part of my education to the w. c." The Dreyfus case, of which one of the results was a workers' free university at Belleville, gave Hamp his chance. He left England's kitchens, headed home towards a rosy future. "Dazzled by my imagination, I was heading for a poverty which would grow...