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...Post, with the largest Sunday circulation in Scotland), Publisher Thomson made his employees sign contracts that forbade them to join unions, was finally forced to back down in 1952 in the face of a threatened boycott of the Trades Union Congress and affiliated unions. His papers always bore the imprint of his crusty personality. After a row with Winston Churchill in 1922 over a political speech, he barred Churchill's name from the Thomson papers until World War II made occasional use of it unavoidable...
Corroding Confidence. For the first time, something that bore an official imprint was substituted for the deluge of black headlines and wild rumors that had sprung up because of the 18-month-old death of Wilma Montesi, the obscure daughter of a Roman carpenter. The charge laid against Piccioni was that, believing Wilma Montesi dead (presumably as a result of a drug orgy), he had left her body on a beach 13 miles outside Rome. There she had drowned in the tide. Montagna, a man of large but questioned means, and Polito were charged with aiding and abetting the manslaughter...
...Dialogues emerges the image of a man as well as the imprint of a mind. Little more than 5 ft. high, frail, bent, kindly Philosopher Whitehead had a bald, domed head framed by wispy white hair that made him look, in the words of one student, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." His bright blue eyes, set in a rosy-cheeked, unwrinkled face, had the candor of a child's. He spoke with a nicely articulated British accent, usually with deliberation, often with enthusiasm, and his mind had the freshness of youth. "Between the ages...
Each number, whether a melancholy Bunny or Plymouth Rock or a driving version of Lulu's Back in Town, bore the basic Basie imprint. After the Count played a phrase or two on the piano, the rhythm section began to boost the beat while cymbals sizzled in the background. Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...
...backlands, other voices are rousing the natives. Secret societies, which have survived years of missionaries' efforts to imprint white customs on the Nyasa black, are busily at work. The jungle is noisy with the beat of tom-toms and the sound of witch doctors crying, Chifwambal It means "Europeans are eating Africans." London professes to be little worried by the rumbles, and one Colonial Office man, obviously proud of his talent as a phrasemaker, spoke of "a tempest in a teagarden." But British planters, who have evacuated their women & children to the market town of Blantyre, remember that London...