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...Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley into prize press packages. A big spender of Hearst's money, he covered King George VI's coronation to the hilt: he hired Lloyd George to report the politics, G.B.S. to make the wisecracks, Grand Duchess Marie to do "the women's angle...
Every room in Mellon from the second floor up is charged to the hilt with talk since Fortune brought its western issue out. Larry "christmas Spirit" Jaffa has called a "cal Homecoming" and everybody west of Philadelphia is going. Dick Shorrock is talking in public now on the advantages of Pike's Peak over the New Hampshire Hills for real skiling. He has a pair of skis straight from Shorrock's in Sacramento as well as a new shipment of oranges which Bob Stewart has been appointed special curator...
...before being offered membership in the Bond. He is sworn in at a spine-chilling ceremony. In sepulchral gloom a light plays fitfully on a blood-spattered bier, on which lies a lifelike "corpse" wrapped in a black shroud. Into the "corpse" a dagger has been plunged to the hilt. Letters of blood spell the word Verraad (treachery). A predikant (pastor) intones: "He who betrays the Bond will be destroyed by the Bond. The Bond never forgets." Membership lasts "till death." Broeders recognize one another by secret signs, handclasps, passwords...
...shield's black background is the "darkness of Nazi oppression." A Crusader's sword across the shield has "red flames of avenging justice leaping from its hilt." Above the sword a rainbow, made up of all the colors of the United Nations, stands for hope. Over the rainbow a field of blue represents "peace and tranquillity for the enslaved people of Europe...
This time, Cassius Foot drove to the hilt his thesis that "the Right preferred Fascism to reform; the Left did not drive home their advantage when they had it"; that expedient toleration of Fascists is as criminal as Fascism itself. This time the Beaver could not look the other way; his fellow Cabinet members were angry. He dropped Foot, ostensibly for violation of a contract provision against outside writing. In the good clubs there were grunts of satisfaction...