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Cash from Waxey? The committee learned that the company had started in business on $35,000 from a Brooklyn trucker and Sam Lazar, Philadelphia's pinball tycoon. But the committee suspected that the cash actually came from Waxey Gordon and that he ran Worldwide, which had contracted for well over $100,000 in surplus property. The committee thought that the quickest way to find out was to ask Waxey. The committee was wrong...
...Tsar Lazar, of honourable stock...
...prince . . . with them. . . . Lazar chose a heavenly kingdom since...
...heavenly kingdom will last for eternity and its centuries. . . . Then the Turks overwhelmed Lazar, And the Tsar Lazar was destroyed, And his army was destroyed with him, Of seven and seventy thousand soldiers. All was holy and honourable And the goodness of God was fulfilled. The song annoyed Novelist West. Her first remark was: "So that was what happened, Lazar was a member of the Peace Pledge Union." To herself she said: "Lazar was wrong, he saved his soul and there followed five hundred years when no man on these plains, nor anywhere else in Europe for hundreds of miles...
Later Author West tells how from be leaguered England she watched the Yugoslavs struggle against themselves to save their soul and meet certain defeat at the hands of the Nazis. "In this hour the Yugoslavs often repeated the poem of Tsar Lazar and the grey falcon. . . . 'All was holy, all was honourable,' they quoted, looking down from the tall tower of prescience on the field of their coming fate, 'and the goodness of God was fulfilled.' " Then she was sure that it was a poem of life, not of death...