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...diplomats, who had once dismissed him as a demagogue or a nut, began to wonder if Lumumba had not known all along what he was doing. "He was sitting down there feeling pretty vulnerable," mused one. "So he mentions the Russians, and nothing could bring the house down faster. Everyone panics, and the U.N. really begins to move." The consensus: "Erratic, but a tough, clever...
...risk of sounding like a nut in Pollyannaland, I'd like to clarify a few points about ministers' wives [April 25]. Moneywise, if she has a small family and large church, her problems may be negligible; if the situation is reversed, she has financial rough sledding...
...back nine of the opening round). Son of a ship chandlery salesman in San Francisco, Venturi began playing golf at the age of nine, was a senior at San Jose State College when he came under the benevolent care of Millionaire Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Ed Lowery. A golf nut, Lowery not only bankrolled Venturi by making him vice president of one of his dealerships, but introduced him to Byron Nelson, the Texas pro with the great iron game who flourished at the end of World War II. After Nelson had tightened his swing, Venturi surprised the golfing world...
...Thurber Carnival. In the country of Humorist James Thurber, there is a nut behind every tree: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver...
...Rudkin, a prosperous Wall Street broker, she lived a life of ease and social grace on their Pepperidge Farm (named after pepperidge, or black gum, trees on the property) near Fairfield, Conn. Then in the mid-1930s, the youngest of her three sons became ill with asthma. An admitted "nut on proper food for children," Mrs. Rudkin knew that asthma is an allergy, was nonetheless convinced that she could help her son by building him up. She dug out a whole-wheat-bread recipe left by her Irish grandmother, packed her baking pan with its old-fashioned ingredients-stone-milled...