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JOHN ("HONEST JOHN") KELLY. While the Tweed Ring was crumbling, John Kelly, onetime soapstone cutter grown to influence in Tammany, wisely absented himself from the scene; he went off to inspect the Holy Land. Upon the Ring's breakup, Kelly hastened back to the U.S. with four oil paintings, including The Return of the Prodigal Son, which he presented to St. Patrick's Cathedral. He took over as Boss of Tammany, ruled for 14 years with relative rectitude, and died of a broken heart after his political enemy, Grover Cleveland, became President...
...shattered village where hysterical Italians watched a British private thumping out Moonlight Becomes You on a piano in the smoking ruins. Near by, a Gurkha battalion had established its GHQ without bothering to check for snipers in the upper room. A British officer sent his aide to inspect the attic, and when the Gurkha returned, Johnston recorded this conversation...
Last week in a speech at Karlovac, Tito made his attitude truculently clear. Said he: "They [the Americans] would like to inspect everything . . . We will not permit this by any means, and it is their business whether or not they will give us armaments. They can also stop them if they want to." At the same time a story was noised about Belgrade that six high Yugoslav air force officers, on their way to Moscow to attend a Soviet air force celebration, would negotiate with Russia for the right to manufacture MIG aircraft in Yugoslavia...
Some of Manhattan's department stores and some of suburban New Jersey's dress shops were getting used to a new kind of invasion last week. Potential customers enter, inspect the dresses and select the models worthy to bear a tag proclaiming them fit for a Roman Catholic girl...
...Khrushchev shook hands with the Soviet embassy staff in the manner of a candidate on tour, then proceeded to inspect the honor guard. Bulganin trailed along behind. Khrushchev, scarcely looking at Tito's soldiers, hopped along beside his slightly taller host, talking with his hands, anxious to waste not a moment in selling his samovar. Tito frowned...