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...Kipling wrote: ". . . There entered a native officer who had played for the Lushkar team. He could not, of course, eat with the alien . . ." His own choice; not that of his hosts. His religion would not have permitted him to eat the alien's food, drink his wine. Altering "alien" to "mess" clearly implies Kipling meant the native had been excluded, perhaps by racial prejudice...
...prosperous G.O.P. wheat farmer in Gering, Nebr. summed up what a lot of others told me elsewhere: "The thing we've got to fight against is alien, Asiatic Communism-not socialism. A managed farm economy is socialism, and we've got it, and we've got to keep it." And at a service-club lunch at Burlington, Iowa, a man who has 1,400 acres of fine corn land between West Burlington and Mt. Pleasant said: "The big Easterners are trying to sell Eisenhower that all he has to do is toss the farmers a little help...
...officer briskly climbed aboard the S.S. Mohican, a World War II Liberty ship, as she lay at anchor. The officer informed the captain that the ship was being seized by the U.S. Government. His reason: the U.S. ship, in violation of a 1916 law, was being operated by an alien owner, Stavros Niarchos, a Greek who had bought her as war surplus through U.S. nationals as dummies...
...Minstrel by heart before he was twelve." He could also recite huge chunks of Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante and Keats, could play the "immortal game" of chess in his head, learned to write at the rate of 50 words a minute. Not even his arrest in Austria as an enemy alien during World War I could keep him from his typewriter. "Military fatheads," declared Richards-Hamilton, "might come and go, but Billy Bunter went on forever...
When a man gets a crush on Rita Hayworth, he is sometimes in danger of carrying the thing too far. Twice-married Crooner Dick Haymes, 34, was in trouble with the U.S. Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita...