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...less spectacular than Eccles or Marples is a quiet, relatively unknown, 47-year-old lawyer named John Selwyn Lloyd...
...which helps. He typifies the millions of middle-class young Britons who went through the war, understand the element of Christian generosity in the Labor movement which saves it from tawdriness, and desperately want to build an improving life for themselves and contribute to the progress of their countrymen. Selwyn Lloyd may advance slowly, but he will advance surely...
...young Peter Richards, who gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...
Among the millions listening to General MacArthur's speech before Congress last week were an obscure Hollywood producer named Maurice Duke and a casting director named William Selwyn. At the close of the speech, when MacArthur quoted from the "barracks ballad," Old Soldiers Neiver Die, Selwyn's reaction was instantaneous and practical. He turned to Duke and remarked that whoever got the movie rights to that song would certainly be sitting pretty. Duke at once got on the trail...
...trail led to a Chicago music concern-which had previously sold its rights to a subsidiary of Warner Bros.-and thence to Manhattan. Together with three partners (including Idea-Man Selwyn), Duke finally managed to buy the movie rights to one version of the song* for $1,000. Then he registered the title, for a prospective movie. To his dismay, he found that another Hollywood producer had beaten him to the draw. Fifteen minutes after the general's speech, Darryl Zanuck had registered the same title...