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...Riding after them, breaking from the wood on every side, came the hunt," wrote Authoress Mary Webb in the climax to her 32-year-old novel, Gone to Earth. "Coming, as they did, from the deep gloom, fiery-faced and fiery-coated, with eyes frenzied by excitement, and open, cavernous mouths, they were like devils emerging from hell on a foraging expedition...
According to Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb, who presented the bill to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, first consideration would be for improvement in health standards, then for teaching better methods in agriculture and industry. Webb argued that Point Four would strengthen the U.N., expand markets for American business, and generally raise living standards throughout the world...
Hydrography & Health. To explain how Point Four might work was the job of Under Secretary of State James E. Webb. Last week he appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to push an Administration bill clearing the way for $35 million worth of technical assistance, ranging from hydrographic surveys to health advice, to get the program started. Webb's vague generalities on how the program would stimulate world trade and hence the U.S. economy were not the blueprint the committee wanted. Snorted Ohio Republican John M. Vorhys, critic of foreign spending: "Rube Goldberg must have been your consultant...
President N. Conant Webb '49 is planning most of last year's PBH activities for expanded repeat performances this year, plus several new activities. Top spots in PBH's program will go to "social service," as expressed in boys' group work in Boston's many settlement houses, and to tutoring...
Back in the U.S. after three months in Europe as a self-styled "celluloid diplomat," Actor Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb filed a tart report: "From what I have seen, the only country in the world today that is safe from Communism is Russia...