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Later Moore moved west, with his membership card, his lapel pin and the White House photo, protected by a cellophane case. Until last week he went over big wherever he went. Then Lion Moore passed a worthless check on a brother member in Salt Lake City, and the police, digging into the past, dug up a story. Items...
Ernest Hemingway became a pin-up boy in earnest: popular-magazine illustrators Frederic Varady, Al Buell and Mortimer Wilson decided that the taurine author's head was one of the six "most startling and exciting heads in the world . . . faunlike." The other pre-eminent polls: Admiral William F. Halsey, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, U.A.W. Leader Walter Reuther, Cinemactor Tyrone Power, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover...
...years, without losing his reformer's zest, he picked political losers. Then in 1932 he organized Midwest Republican Progressives (the nearest thing to a party label he would pin on himself) for Franklin Roosevelt...
...reached the Canadian Government which establishes that there have been disclosures of secret and confidential information to ... a foreign mission in Ottawa. . . . The persons involved include some now employed or who have been employed in a number of [Government departments]." The rest of the truth was harder to pin down...
...which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...