Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have just read the May 20 review of The Turn of the Tide by "Arthur Bryant. You say that the book "has already sold 70,000 copies in England." The sale of the English edition passed the 100,000 mark before the end of March...
Great Document. Humphrey's high point was a three-hour conference with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Humphrey soon discovered that Nasser knew very little about Eisenhower. He had, he said, read Crusade in Europe. Asked Humphrey: "Have you read President Eisenhower's second inaugural address?" When Nasser replied "No," Humphrey sent round to the U.S. Embassy for a copy, advised Nasser to read "one of the greatest documents for peace ever written." Said Humphrey: "Eisenhower seeks to dominate no one, and it appears to me that anyone who really wants peace in the world...
...Communist confession mills have a fair idea of what to expect these days. As long ago as 1940, Budapest-born Arthur Koestler in his novel Darkness at Noon explained something of the techniques used. Thus, when onetime Hungarian Cultural Attaché Paul Ignotus, an active Social Democrat who had read his Koestler, returned to Budapest from Britain to see his ailing father in 1949, he knew the danger he risked. Picked up by the AVO security police a few days after his father's funeral, he was not altogether surprised to find himself in the hands of the Communist...
...Lessons. Florence, too, had read her Koestler. "One day I heard a tap-tap-tap, muffled, irregular, but methodical. I remembered the alphabet in Darkness at Noon: one tap for A, two for B, and so on.* I listened and for a long time could make no sense out of what I heard-until I realized that the language was English." She tried to join in the conversation, but the others were suspicious of her. At first there was no answer. But after repeatedly tapping out her name she discovered that the man in the cell below hers...
...name-dropping autobiography, R.S.V.P., fickle Party Girl Elsa Maxwell, 74, dropped lowest of all the name of Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk: "My R.S.V.P. to an invitation to dine with Farouk [in 1950] was a telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters.' I learned that Farouk screamed like a pig-what else?-when he saw the telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last...