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...streets wearing shorts, a pith helmet and an air of inscrutable mystery, he was nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa), but the memory of the occasion stuck. Years later, after a World War I hitch in Europe with the Red Cross, Henderson decided to try a diplomatic career himself. Last week...
...logic of terrain still prevails: from the Rockies to the Cascades, the Inland Empire, which revolves around Spokane, is a trans-mountain stranger to the populous cities of coastal Washington and Oregon, to the potato farmers of south Idaho and to the ranchers of Montana's eastern plains. In lusty growth (its population has swelled by 51% since 1940), it is building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle...
...Stranger. In Xew Haven, Conn.. Judge James C. Shannon ordered an immediate mistrial when Juror Timothy Lyons fainted, was revived by Dr. Carl Y. Pantaleo. the defendant...
...sheets and his boots buffed with champagne. Or again, he is the glorious adventurer. At the end of the picture, he dies in a Calais garret, with the King at his side, of a genteel consumption taken, as he says, when he "shared a carriage with a damp stranger...
...griffons on the roof but no real monsters within. It is a "cosy" doghouse, Koestler admits, and in gratitude affirms that this mild race lives "closer to the text of the invisible writing than any other." No one in Koestler's new home would dream of asking a stranger what France's André Malraux once asked him : "Yes, my dear chap, Apocalypse?" Koestler seems to think that it is always with us, and toward those who ignore it, he can be scathing. Replying to some letters asking whether a description of a mass killing was fact...