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...Army said it denied Fairbank a passport because of "security reasons." Fairbank thought the "reasons" were his connection with the Institute of Pacific Relations, then under investigation by a Senate sub-committee...
Director George Cukor describes Kate's early attitude toward Hollywood as "sub-collegiate idiotic." She went out of her way to insult everyone in sight, at sight. She told reporters that she couldn't remember whether she was married or not, but that she did have five children-"three of them colored." She wore a baggy sweater and patched blue dungaree pants (now a national fad but in 1932 a scandal), and read her mail sitting on the curb outside the studio...
After his inauguration last month, Governor Aloé quickly found his tongue in public. Vociferously he cried that he will not tolerate any sub-bureaucrat "who does not think as the governor thinks." He especially concentrated his conformist zeal on the brainwashing of schoolchildren...
Evita appeared to have reached a crisis in her long illness. Early last week word leaked out of the presidential residence in Olivos that she was being fed intravenously. Toward week's end she was reported slightly improved. But at the Avenida de Mayo headquarters of the sub-Secretary of Information, lights burned all night. Inside, a special watch of five reporters anxiously awaited news of any change in the First Lady's health...
...ship was nicknamed "S.S. Diaper." At dawn, one morning in 1940, off the coast of Portugal, a German U-boat surfaced and blinked out a terrifying message: "STOP SHIP. EASE TO SHIP. TORPEDO SHIP." Manning ordered his 1590 passengers to the lifeboats, Then, for ten tense minutes, as the sub repeatedly flashed "ABANDON SHIP," Manning stubbornly replied: "AMERICAN SHIP." Finally, in the agonizing quiet, the submarine signaled: "THOUGHT YOU WERE ANOTHER SHIP. PLEASE...