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White House than in the House of Representatives. When Richards finished, Ike turned to House G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin and Speaker Rayburn. Asked Ike: "What can we do?" Replied Martin, seconded by Mister Sam: "Speak out loud and clear at your press conference...
...born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains, he was put on the Mau Mau murder list...
...less lustrous level and in less creative guise. Much, instead of being directly created for the stage, was made over from something else, whether in such clear successes as The Diary of Anne Frank, No Time for Sergeants and The Ponder Heart, or such interesting failures as Mister Johnson and The Young and Beautiful. At straight playwriting, Arthur Miller came closest to real achievement with A View from the Bridge, but he let a longing for Greek tragedy blur the play's kinship with primitivist drama...
...stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when one of his destroyers strayed out of formation. Over his TBS (Talk Between Ships) radio, Burke snapped to the offending skipper: "Mister, that's a destroyer...
...bluejacket staggered through the thick odor and the rude sounds of the old port of Naples. A ragged urchin tugged and chanted at him: "You wanna girl, mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...