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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I Became King." Last week's melancholy debate was a sort of rehearsal for a big African conference to be held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give...
...Rocco," Huston says, "was supposed to represent a sort of evil flower of reaction. In other words we are headed for the same kind of world we had before, even down to the gang lords . . . There is great talk of the good old days and prohibition; in other words, return to the old order . . . I tried to make all the characters old-fashioned (the gangster's moll is out of the '20s), to brand them as familiar figures, and to suggest they were ready to take over again...
John Hancock: Patriot in Purple is the sort of biography that has lately become fairly common-a valuable study of a neglected historic figure, written, however, with an air of almost deliberate carelessness, in a scratchy and repetitious prose style, and with modern, skeptical yawns breaking in on the high-minded speeches of the patriots...
...inspected again. Since horsecarts are not allowed beyond Kaiyuan, they must be sold for whatever price the racketeering army men may offer. Communist currency is confiscated. The wheaten cakes are broken by inspectors looking for concealed opium. Then the authorities hustle the travelers on to rugged refugee trains-a sort of slow-moving human cattle car jampacked with unwashed, heartsick bodies...
...choice items in Editor Linscott's basket is an account of how mid-19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place...