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James Stephens was born in a Dublin slum, worked his way through night school, finally got to be a solicitor's typist at $5 a week. Of those times he once said: "I thought in those days I'd be a poet. All day I used to sit and think about big words. By big I mean fine high-sounding words like 'honor' and 'noble' and 'courage,' and I spent most of my time scribbling them down." Later, as a recognized poet on a lecture tour in California, he was more explicit...
...years before by a prison pal. Next morning, Long unwrapped his package, took out a Reising submachine gun, and ambled into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot and rushed from the bank toward a Ford truck...
After three months, Oxford-bred Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwato, was finally allowed by the British to return to his homeland for a five-day reunion with his white wife, former London Typist Ruth Williams, who is expecting a baby in June. As crowds of Bamangwato shouted happily and grizzled tribal elders cried pula, pula (welcome, welcome), Ruth, sobbing and laughing, ran over the rough sand into her husband's arms...
Unfortunately, as the Times well knew, neither principle nor the south African tribe of Bamangwato stood much chance of prevailing. When handsome, black, Oxford-bred Seretse Khama, hereditary chief of the Bamangwato, decided to make blonde Ruth Williams, a London typist, his queen (TIME, July 11), he touched off a problem that reached far beyond the hearths of his 100,000 subjects in Britain's Bechuanaland Protectorate. Few Bamangwato objected to Ruth. After a brief tribal squabble between the pro-Seretse forces and those of his domineering uncle, Regent Tshekedi, the tribe, their enthusiasm spurred by an unprecedented rainfall...
...making $20 a week on the Los Angeles News, when William Randolph Hearst spotted his byline. He telephoned Johnson and hired him for $100 a week on the Los Angeles Examiner. Young Johnson's new column was called "Behind the Makeup," until a Hearst lin0-typist garbled the title: "Makeup the Behind." Recalls Skinny :"That day I became famous...