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Married. James Ramsay Ullman, 38, venturer and adventurer who wrote the current best-selling White Tower, produced four Broadway flops in one season (1936-37), then quit because "I like to eat"; and Elaine Heineberg Baron Luria, 27; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...
...summary, Fine indicated that the course of the Labour Government would clearly follow its platform program and that the caution of the last Labour Government, headed by J. Ramsay MacDonald, would not be repeated
...believed that voting for 50 other seats had gone so much in their favor that the result would be decided by a very narrow margin. If Labor has won 100 new seats, it would have 266 seats in the next Parliament-22 seats short of the number on which Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labor Government...
...shortly sold over a million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William Allen White, Eduard Benes. Unlike most Utopian outlines, Looking Backward presented a concrete program for the modern world...
Killed in Action. Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch the landings in Normandy, on the grounds that he and his men would have enough to do without worrying about the Prime Minister's security...