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...blithe spirit who taunted his publishers with such expense-account items as 10? for wolfbane after covering a wolf hunt, and tickled his readers with such feats as hiring a taxicab during the "phony" war of 1939 to tootle past France's Maginot Line and inspect the Nazis' Siegfried Line; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...defiant letter to Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, he rashly threatened to shoot down U.S. reconnaissance planes that have been keeping a daily watch on Cuba, fiercely attacked the U.S. for "typically Hitlerite methods." and restated his refusal to allow any "national or international" group to inspect Cuban territory...
...only one bed-mother's little darlings can sleep on the floor. Suppose the old Marmon does break down? Burn it up and collect the insurance. Suppose the family does need winter coats? Cut up a couple of hotel blankets. And when the hotel manager comes to inspect his property, knock him down on the nearest mattress and as loud as possible cry: WOLF...
Bernard T. Feld, professor of physics at M.I.T., said that one proposal of this type had been a suggestion that the inspectors' only communication with their governments, once they had entered the area they were to inspect, should be a single word--"yes" or "no." They would then remain in the country they had inspected until the completion of the entire disarmament process...
...grandson, Rudolph August, 46, has made himself the nation's largest private shipowner, one of its biggest brewers, a major power in banking and insurance, and boss, in all, of more than 100 companies. Next week the baking powder baron is due in New York to inspect the Columbus Lines (18 cargo ships), which he bought from Du Pont five years...