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Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, 57, whose urge to leave is heightened by his own bout of illness (a nonmalignant throat growth) and his wife's poor health. Summerfield will regard his Post Office service less than satisfactory if he leaves before achieving fiscal balance in the deficit-dogged postal system. In line to succeed ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Summerfield: ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall...
Before the action ends in a satisfactory bang, there is an uninterrupted spate of sinkings, gunplay, throat-slittings, cliff-hangings, captures and escapes, surrounded by sound technical information. For the young in heart it is great stuff-a first-rate derring-documentary. As in H.M.S. Ulysses, Novelist MacLean sternly eschews sex. A man needs every ounce of strength to punch out novels like this...
...command of a man who fought against them in two wars. The French, who might have been expected to make a fuss, were already taken care of; only in Britain, which will have four divisions under Speidel's command, could there be heard the suppressed sound of tight-throat swallowing...
...broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon him. His arm weakened. A final thrust, and the Marquis crumpled, his throat cut. He cried out his confession and then, unable to speak more, dipped a hand in his own blood and traced a great cross on the floor ..." A contemporary chronicler wrote: "Afterward he was poorly buried. All his grandeur and all his riches vanished, and the means could not be found...
...Phillips Petroleum. Now there was no stopping Listerine. Lambert developed a formula for Listerine tooth paste, turning out a batch himself with a hand press. "Early I reasoned that a new appeal for the same product would be like plowing virgin territory. We started advertising Listerine for sore throat and for dandruff. Then we used the appeal of after shaving...