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...social flies buzzed loudest around Dunham's head when he began taking an interest in the $37.5 million Lustron loan. Dunham suddenly decided that Social Buddy Rex Jacobs was just the man to make a production survey of Lustron. Jacobs reported back that...
...over to help get his movie going in America. Captain Auten was still standing up; he told how the King had awarded him his V.C., and the women laughed again. The press agent laughed too, swallowed down his drink and leaned over once more. "I have to laugh the loudest," he said...
...chanting, jigging crowd gathered before Accra's town hall as the returns came in. Thirty-one of the 38 elective seats went to the Convention People's Party, an anti-imperialist group which preaches self-government. The loudest shout arose over the victory of the C.P.P. leader Kwame Nkrumah, 41, a firebrand orator who had attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. (A.B. 1939; Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 1942; M.A. 1942, University of Pennsylvania.) Nkrumah was not among the crowd; a year ago he had been clapped into Cell No. 9 in Accra prison (two-year term) for sedition...
...Canadian people." The Vancouver Sun agreed: "Most Canadians share his complaint." Toronto's Globe and Mail said: "It was refreshing to have an outstanding business leader facing the facts, realistically appraising them and then putting his views clearly on the record." The Toronto Telegram called the speech "the loudest, clearest alarm bell that any Canadian has sounded since the outbreak of the Korean...
...time of literary rebellion which came like a rude but welcome belch after a dull and heavy meal. Among the loudest belchers were famed Critics H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. At a Manhattan party one night, "Red" Lewis drunkenly embraced Mencken and Nathan and yelled: "So you guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you something. I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country . . ." Next day, after reading the proofs of Main Street, Mencken wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail, steady yourself, and prepare for a terrible shock . . . That...