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...turned on his heel and splashed through the thick, black mud to the outdoor platform. A solicitous aide tried to shield him with a big umbrella, but Ike brushed it aside. Then he tossed away his broad-brimmed hat, and, with rain splattering on his bald head, began his maiden political speech...
...years, Creekford's prefaces were written by the Very Rev. Richard Henry Maiden, Dean of Wells, broad churchman, but the fact became known only after his death last year...
...that knocking at my door? Cried the fair young maiden...
...time in 100 years it looked as if U.S. shipbuilders might recapture the transatlantic speed record for ocean liners.* The ship that would do it, if any could, was the new $70 million S. S. United States, biggest liner ever built in a U.S. yard, which will make her maiden voyage for the U.S. Lines Co. on July 3. Last week she slipped from her dock in the Newport News shipyard for her first trial...
...Total Crisis." Chambers ran away from home, and worked as a day laborer in Washington and New Orleans. Later he entered Columbia, where he substituted "Whittaker," his mother's maiden name, for the baptismal "Jay Vivian" he had always hated. His college reading, and a 1923 trip to Germany "reeling from inflation, readying for revolution," turned him to Communism. "Few Communists," Chambers noted, "have ever been made simply by reading the works of Marx or Lenin. The crisis of history makes Communists; Marx and Lenin merely offer them an explanation of the crisis and what to do about...