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From Rugby to Royalties. Moral Re-Armer Howard could hardly be more unlike Buchman, who was a mild-mannered rural pastor and Y.M.C.A. worker until he founded the Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model...
Conceal the Chorus. Behind these statistics, other patterns have taken shape. The illusion of neutrality, for instance, was only that, since nearly all of the fence-sitting papers have made plain which way they lean. And the unprecedented volume of Johnson endorsements could not conceal the fact that the chorus of approval fell noticeably short of enthusiasm...
...television image of the U.S. marshal is still the tall, lean figure of Wyatt Earp tossing hot lead in Dodge City...
...just lately," said Editor William Calhoun Baggs of the Miami News, "it's been lean times for our front page. Our lead story one day last week was something like FHA FORECLOSURES AT NEW HIGH. Well, that was the way it was. Then, all of a sudden, the dam broke." Into the Miami News, and into newsrooms all over the U.S., spilled one of the heaviest torrents of big stories ever to tax the resources of the press...
...When businessmen start building up their inventories at a rapid pace, they have historically helped bring on inflation, which the Government then seeks to curb by boosting interest rates and slowing down the economy. The current economic expansion has been long-lived and steady precisely because inventories have stayed lean, prices stable and credit free and easy. Last week, however, there were rumblings, rumors and signs of concern on all three fronts...