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...sold arms to white men, black men, yellow men. When governments opposed him, he felled them by withholding credit in his capacity as a regent of the Bank of France. When newspapers opposed him, he bought them. In the French "Who's Who," he described himself simply as "Maître de Forges" (iron master...
...position to question your idea of TiME-readers as you portrayed 'em. "To begin, I couldn't afford a subscription to TIME. Liv ing on an income which has shrunk to infinitesimal value since this inflation hit the dollar (Mr. B is an ex-Ma rine Gunnery Sergeant on retirement pay), we have all we can do to exist - let alone spend money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home...
There were other visitors to headquarters. Writes Kay: "The nomadic politicians were real burdens. They made a point of collaring every G.I. in sight, bellowing, 'Where you from, Son? I'll be sure to tell your Ma I saw you when I get back to the United States of America...
...Suitor. In Shanghai, Miss Chang Yun-shiu had the law on Ma Shu-li after he 1) protested his love for her in a letter written in blood; 2) threatened to kill her; 3) tried for the third time to climb in her bedroom window...
Brooks wrote: "About the crazy thing at Princeton-although I kept telling him I had to have a definite answer to our relations problem it was still that same maybe-mañana-perhaps-or this one little piece, until he just decided to drive away-well-the lack of anything broke up my mind...