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...obviously, the FHA scandals have become part of nightclub repertories, Red Smith's column and American folk lore generally. (The tabloids had fun with the story of Ian Woodner, a Washington builder who charged to FHA projects $87,000 for detectives-partly to check up on his ex-wife.) Until last week, however, nobody knew much about the central character: Clyde L. (for Lilbon) Powell, 58, who joined FHA under the Democrats in 1934 and was forced out last spring. From 1946 to 1950, as assistant commissioner, he authorized projects that netted some $500 million in unwarranted windfall profits...
...duckbilled women had merely tried to make themselves unattractive to marauding Arab slave raiders who were seeking likely harem material. Both explanations are dismissed by French Sociologist Jean-Paul Lebeuf, a longtime expert on African ethnology and prehistory, who believes he has found the real clue in the lore of the upcountry Fali and Sara tribes...
...Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
...King" model (capacity of its four electrically powered racks: 20 chickens, 40 to 50 Ibs. of spareribs, eight 14-lb. hams. Cost: $400). The President hesitated momentarily, then said: "I'm afraid that is one gift I couldn't refuse." The President, a keen student of Western lore, exhibited a few deficiencies in his learning while signing a bill benefiting the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin...
...years Dr. Ghoneim has been digging laboriously into a shapeless hill near the "step pyramid" of Zoser, 15 miles south of the Pyramid of Cheops. Prompted by ancient lore, he suspected that it might be more interesting than it looked. Under the sand, he found the corner of a low wall. As his laborers shoveled the sand away, he found another corner. "I've got a pyramid!" cried Dr. Ghoneim. The hill was indeed the base of a pyramid that was never finished...