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Working nights and weekends, they wrote stockholders, charged the management was "inefficient and decadent " and should be tossed out. To round up proxies Smith flew his secondhand Beechcraft Bonanza plane one-armed around the country (blood poisoning cost him his right arm when a boy). In his whirlwind campaign, Smith spent more than $6,000 -but it paid off. At the stockholders' meeting last October, Smith's group won by 14,000 votes out of the 600,000 cast. Out of the $25,000-a-year presidency went
Platonic Revolt. Knox is impressed too, though sometimes amused, by John Wesley, founder of Methodism. "Wesley," he writes, "was unashamedly a retailer; his societies formed a kind of cooperative movement, acquiring their culture on reduced terms at secondhand." But, although the gatherings Wesley addressed were often seized with the cacophony of shouts, sobs and groanings that are associated with enthusiasm, Knox feels that Wesley himself was no enthusiast. He finds the appeal of Wesley's sermons was "to the head, not primarily to the heart...
...idealistic visions of a world without violence. Rhee became convinced that a passive uprising in Korea would win his people recognition both from America and from the League of Nations. In 1919 resistance leaders who had remained in Korea met secretly in Seoul to plot a revolt. Swayed by secondhand reports of Rhee's views, the conspirators distributed to every village in Korea a copy of a Korean Declaration of Independence and a set of orders...
...open letter, to students, Heidelberg University requests secondhand books, principally American literature, to rebuild its war-tern library of American classics...
...American Lions) Hibben has put together a bear book as fresh and arresting as the hour-old print of a grizzly's paw. Some of the experiences are Professor-Hunter Hibben's own: he has tracked the varmints through the Southwest and in Alaska. Others he gleaned secondhand from such fast-trailing U.S. hunters as Ben Lilly (TIME, May 15) and Alaska's Allen Hasselborg, who left the States in 1900 and settled for good on desolate Admiralty Island to hunt and trap...