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On the fourth day, the elevator brought Mohamed AH Jinnah, leader of India's Moslems and the most dangerous threat to Indian unity. He had repeatedly threatened that unless the Moslems were granted the separate state of Pakistan and complete independence from India's Hindu majority, he would...
When the late Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey had to be forcibly ejected from a Cathedral service for vociferating against Manning's attacks on "companionate marriage." the thin-lipped Bishop finished his benison and then called for a hymn. Said he: "Let us sing 'Fight the Good Fight with...
In the late winter he goes up into the hills to live with Massot, the shepherd. "Madame Massot received me with clasped hands. . . . She was an agreeable country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose...
Latest beneficiary of Alemán's thoughtfulness : Leonora Amar, a full-lipped, companionable, young Brazilian actress, whom U.S. taxpatriate A. C. "Blumey" Blumenthal brought around. Alemán boosted Senhorita Amar to stardom in Mexican films.
But many a North Conway Yankee doesn't like what's happening. In tight-lipped down-east fashion, they object to "all this foreign element" from New York. They don't relish losing their wintertime leisure, just to make more money than they had ever dreamed of...