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Next day John Lewis and Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, neutral trustee of the welfare fund, overruled the operators' Trustee Ezra Van Horn (who had submitted his resignation two days before) and made a drastic decision. Since the start of Lewis' three-day week, the fund had been taking in $5,000,000 a month and spending $8,000,000. Cut further by the halt of payments from the Southern operators, the fund had dwindled away to a bare $14 million. There was no way out; except for emergency payments all pension and welfare benefits would...
...nationwide tour, the first part of Artie's experiment worked. A record-breaking crowd, including a good many of the jammy jitterbug type which apparently hides under logs in the daytime, was lured into Boston's huge Symphony Ballroom. The Shaw faithful, plus a few horn-rimmed jazz intellectuals, clustered around the bandstand, stood through it all without moving much but their gum-chewing muscles. Right there, any resemblance to success stopped...
Interruption. In Seattle, Lloyd A. Mclsaac explained that he was just on his way to a repair shop when police arrested him for operating a car with defective brakes, headlights, window glass, horn, muffler and tires...
When Parliament is sitting, the white-haired Prime Minister is in his front-row seat every day, toying with his heavy horn-rimmed glasses or fingering his bristly mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with...
Straw-haired, sleekly groomed Fleur Cowles doesn't own a hat, usually wears tailored suits, a rose, and black horn-rimmed glasses, is never without a huge (1 in.) Russian emerald ring ("It's my trademark, it's me, it's Fleur - rough, uncut, vigorous"). Says she: "I've worked hard, and I've made a fortune, and I did it in a man's world, but always, ruthlessly, and with a kind of cruel insistence, I have tried to keep feminine." For a sampling of Fleur's insistent femininity, readers could...