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Harry Thompson bought himself a Navy yeoman's uniform, went to work. Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account...
...trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that Frederick Lamb sincerely loved me, and deeply regretted that he had no fortune to invite me to share with...
...struggle to be officially noticed came as a request to be received by King Edward VIII. To this the Foreign Office replied that Emperor Haile Selassie, since he was traveling incognito, was no more likely to be received by the King Emperor than any other distinguished but unofficial visitor...
...words spoken by His Majesty in his native Amharic-until an announcer cleared up the mistake. As Good Old Haile Selassie withdrew into the house, 1,000 admirers out front snapped up popular dailies, one of which cried under a banner headline: ''Haile Selassie is a welcome visitor, for he belongs to that band of men with the courage to stand up against tyranny and stand by what is right at the risk of death in order that justice might live...
...preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...