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Novelist du Maurier's romantic whoop-dedo also includes a Puritan witch, a villainess with "serpent's eyes," a secret passageway with moldering bones in it, floods of blood, and scads of Gestapolike Roundheads...
Henry Agard Wallace was doubly rewarded for his international plugging of "equal justice for all"; the African Academy of Arts and Research presented him with an African mahogany table (see cut) and a session of African whoop-te-do. Ceremonially involved were Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Uganda and K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe of Nigeria (both in flowing robes), Asadata Dafora (who did a knottily convulsive dance) and Norman Coker (who beat a drum...
...most nauseating jobs. Rejected for combat service in World War I, he got over to France, measured corpses for coffins and "had the time of my life" as an attendant in a venereal ward. Later, he became reporter for Stars & Stripes, wrote front-line stories that were "one long whoop of glory." He was blissfully happy. One of his friends was asked: "Where was Aleck while we were celebrating [the Armistice]?" "Probably in a corner, crying his eyes out," was the reply...
Enterprising young Armand Viau, lately hired to whoop up the city's qualities as an industrial center, had been told, he said, that a delegation would look over Quebec this summer. He had blueprints of great, new ultra-modern buildings ready to show them. The architecture naturally would be Old Quebec. There would be three large buildings costing $10,000,000, a hotel and suburban houses...
...With a whoop and a holler, the packing industry last week launched an all-out attack on the Office of Price Administration's price ceilings. Up before the Senate's Agriculture and Forestry Committee, which is probing the meat shortage, stepped dapper, sandy-haired Wilbur Laroe, spokesman for the 700 companies in the National Independent Meat Packers Association. Said Mr. Laroe: the OPA is largely to blame for the meat shortage because it has followed a "social philosophy which regards profits...