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Shortly after dawn, seven men in a guarded room in Washington's Department of Agriculture building crowded around a large metal bo., with two heavy padlocks. One man opened the first lock, another the second. Then for almost five hours, they pulled sealed envelopes from the box, tore them open, and carefully tabulated reports from farmers all over the U.S. A few minutes before n, the guards unlocked the doors, admitted Agriculture Secretary Charlie Brannan. Once he had examined the totals, signed his name and marched out again, the doors were thrown open. In came a dozen reporters...
...raced for the hall. Several teachers marched their classes to the assembly hall, conducting hasty rehearsals of the national anthem on the way. A nun assigned to unlock the main chapel door was so rattled that she could do nothing but rattle the key in the lock. The royal party passed her by and filed through another door. "How beautiful," said one of them, "are the angels here...
...boss of Chicago's fast-growing Hotpoint, Inc. likes nothing better than to grab a sale away from giant General Electric Co. What gives James J. Nance the kick is the fact that G.E. owns Hotpoint lock, stock and dishwasher. But nobody would ever know this to watch Hotpoint's Jim Nance. He is responsible to G.E., but he operates Hotpoint as if he bossed an independent company. He has his own board of directors, runs his own sales and engineering staff, maps his own strategy...
Nightclub singer Lizabeth Scott is the same as ever. She serves the function of squealing to the cops, which in turn helps an over-eager young policeman to trap and shoot two of Ryan's gang, which in turn makes Ryan shoot the eager cop. This enables Mitchum to lock...
...whom would agree with Glenway Wescott that she is "the greatest living French fiction writer") wonder how on earth their "national great lady" ever bowed to such servitude. Colette herself, now a distinguished member of the French Academy, wonders too. True, she says, Willy actually kepi her under lock & key. But why did she not escape by the window? Was it because he always guessed so cunningly when she was on the verge of flight-and gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy's brutal, profiteering tutelage young Colette learned how to write...