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...trip to Russia reporting that "the whole atmosphere there is one big smile." Assistant Secretary Frank Haxell is a tightlipped, dedicated party man and a member of the party's executive committee. He provides firm guidance from headquarters for his union superiors. Even at press conferences, Haxell will interrupt Foulkes or General Secretary Walter Stevens with, "What you really mean is . . ."-and tell them. Foulkes and Stevens hastily agree...
...entrusting its future to the governmental control of the lofty British Broadcasting Corp. Some are motivated by simple boredom at their present TV fare, others by the fear that all sponsored television will promptly descend to the level of J. Fred Muggs, the U.S. chimpanzee who was used to interrupt a New York showing of the BBC's coronation telecast...
...Korean or U.S. national anthems, the wind winnowing his thin white hair, his battered grey felt hat clutched to his breast. But on other occasions, particularly when he is tired, the aged President will droop. Whenever Madame Rhee thinks that a visitor has over stayed, she will interrupt with some such remark as "Poppa, do you haff coffee or tea this afternoon?" Hearing her voice, Rhee's thousand-wrinkled face will crease into a smile. In private the President calls Madame Rhee "Momma," and in recent months he has needed all her solicitude...
World War II did little to interrupt the astronomer-captain's hobby; bombs and torpedoes, in fact, appeared to avoid his ships. In the harbor of Trincomalee, Ceylon, Japanese airplanes sank two neighboring ships; U-boats in the West Indies knocked off three ships sailing close at hand. But nothing happened to any of Captain Drent's commands, and nothing interfered with his astronomical studies. The wartime blackout was actually a help: it allowed the captain's eyes to adjust to darkness, the better to observe the zodiacal light...
Married. George Charles Montagu, 77, ninth Earl of Sandwich (whose 18th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, refused to interrupt his whist games for meals, insisted instead that a slab of meat and two slices of bread be brought to him at the gaming table, is thus credited with inventing the sandwich); and Amiya Corbin, 50, secretary of a Hollywood Hindu cult; both for the second time; in Huntingdon, England...