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...National Airport, the Vice President stepped from "Speckled Beauty," his name for the Air Force Constellation which had become his home and his only place of refuge from enthusiastic Asians. He fondly patted its shiny fuselage three times, as if it were a trusty steed. Asia, the returning traveler summed up: "has a desperate need and yearning for peace...
...gentle speed, on snow-white steed...
Northcliffe put in Wickham Steed, the foreign editor, but undermined him from the beginning. Northcliffe chivvied Steed with scathing criticisms, forced vacations, veiled threats. Then he genially invited Steed to accompany him on a trip to the U.S. where they both met President Harding and traveled as if there never had been any friction (see cut). When they returned, Northcliffe sent what the staff called a "stink bomb"-a memo charging Steed and his assistants with sins of incompetence and mismanagement...
Northcliffe, who knew no master, never mastered the Times. Before he could do so, his restless, driving mind crossed the fine line separating eccentricity from madness. When Steed went to see Northcliffe in Paris in the spring of 1922, he found him in bed, gabbling excitedly of plots on his life. He had a loaded pistol in one hand and a "book of piety" in the other, drew a bead on a dressing gown hanging on the door under the impression that an intruder had entered the room. He made Steed accompany him to Southern France, where hotel employees lined...
...socierty ways," explains Lord Clincham. "If there was a vacency ... he might try cantering after the royal barouche." The Prince agrees, and soon passers-by in "Pickadilly" witness daily the astonishing spectacle of Mr. Salteena "galloping madly after the Royal Carrage" on "a fresh and sultry steed...