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...Short of War" takes up the isolation v. intervention debate, Lend-Lease, and Harry Hopkins' mission to London early...
...California's Governor Pat Brown, 59, has been a physical-fitness buff ever since his days as an all-round athlete at San Francisco's Lowell High ('23). So when it came to promoting Teen-Age Fitness, Brown allowed that he'd be glad to lend a hand-two, in fact. Inspired by Connecticut's Gymnast Muriel Grossfeld, 24, a comely, three-time U.S. Olympic team member who's touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet in his Sacramento executive suite for an exhibition...
...Congressman from Illinois' 15th district (Aurora), a deep-dyed conservative who opened his 13-term career in 1936 by denouncing F.D.R.'s court-packing plan, retired in 1962 promising to remain "a missionary to the heathen of Capitol Hill," in between slashing out at the New-Deal, lend-lease, farm-price supports, the U.N., civil rights and foreign aid, while serving on the House committees on Un-American Activities, and Ways and Means; in Joliet...
...black Africa, are ironically concerned with the poor white man who survives as an unwelcome guest in lands where he once was master. Composition Piece examines through a black man's eyes "the new, post-war group of colonial administrators, liberal in opinions, immensely tolerant, who want to lend one books and dedicate their lives to one's assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history catches up with a young Boer who kills a Kaffir servant and discovers to his horror that the law is seriously prepared to demand a white life for a black...
...imported polo teams from abroad to lend glamour to the place, and put them up all winter at his expense. Once he had a great idea for a motorboat race-he built eleven boats, all exactly to the same specifications, and invited eleven of the best auto-racing drivers to race them, with the stipulation that they would not be allowed to practice or even get in the boats before the race. On the great day six of the boats sank in collisions, but the publicity contributed handsomely to the new resort's perennial aura of spectator glamour...