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...center of an ever widening ring of people, without an overcoat, on a small, rough, wooden platform, stood a short plump man in the black suit of a clergyman, his arms waving in the air, his white hair tossing about above his glasses, his shrill voice carrying over the noise of traffic on nearby Charles Street...
...plump little clergyman is not through yet. "They call me a hatemonger but I'll show them all," he warns. "They can never stop me. No matter what they do to me, I'll never take off my Roman collar and I'll never stop preaching...
...Plump, jovial Mayor Weston called a meeting of Coventry's Friendship Committee. The same day he received a shocking piece of news: his daughter's fiance, Lieut. John Godfrey, a 19-year-old Coventry lad, had been killed in Korea. But that didn't stop him, or Coventry, or the dinner of scarce roast beef and Yorkshire pudding he had arranged for the Guildhall ceremony...
...plump, feverish worker, Fox has such a passion for anonymity that his name is not listed on the directory of the old Boston building where he has his headquarters. Inside, the office is piled high with paintings (Utrillo, Hassam, Dufy, etc.); in one corner is a grand piano which Fox likes to play. But his real fun is what he calls "dealing in special situations." By such deals, Fox has gained control of U.S. Leather Co., holds a dominating, if not controlling, interest in Western Union, has his finger in a handful of other companies, including one which is about...
Into this drowsy, gentle kingdom came the Communists. They smuggled arms from Siam across Cambodia to Viet Minh soldiers in Tonkin. Commissioner de Raymond complained to Cambodia's plump, 29-year-old King Norodom Sihanouk, who sits more easily on a horse than on a throne. The Cambodians answered with a couple of questions: If things are so bad, why doesn't the Commissioner himself take more precautions, especially since the assassination of South Viet Nam Commissioner Chanson (TIME, Aug. 13)? And why did the Commissioner keep a house full of Vietnamese servants? Said De Raymond...