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...first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that, when they meet with Liu, "it is like throwing together a heap of steel slabs." Characteristics: gaunt and tall, with sharp features and piercing eyes; rarely smiles, has what his second wife calls "an inexorable heart...
Love Affair (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). An intense lament with a fine tune, sung in a rough-tender style that puts Songstress Sanders right on top of the vocal heap...
...Florida's industrial heap is 66-year-old Edward Ball, who bosses the vast interests of the estate of Alfred Irenee du Pont, and who, as head of the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville, helped many of the new industries to start. Ball, with headquarters in Jacksonville, oversees an empire that ranges from banks (a total of 23 in the Florida National Group) to pulp and paper (St. Joe Paper Co.) and one of the largest privately owned forests...
...brilliant diplomacy, sometimes a singlehanded operation. ("I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.") By 1908. "reactionary"' Democrats were getting the same abuse that Cousin Franklin's young men of a latter day were to heap on the Republicans. Roosevelt was furious that a "floppy souled creature" like Taft threatened to undo his plans for the party: hence his hopeless attempt to win the nomination again in 1912, his "Bull Moose" split with the G.O.P., and the easy victory of Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats...
...devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced one of his cousins, then told the girl's accusing parents that "a person sitting on an ant-heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they...