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...fortune approaching $300 million, Irving dominates much of the Maritimes. He owns the biggest hardware chain in the region, the public transit system in Saint John, 1,700,000 acres of woodlands, several mines, a steel fabricating plant, a shipyard, 16 tankers and 2,000 service stations that blazon the Irving name in red, white and blue from Newfoundland to Quebec. Almost everyone in New Brunswick has strong feelings-pro or con-about K. C. Irving. But he has so effectively walled himself from the public that few really know...
...Communist himself, Prime Minister Sastroamidjojo is relying more and more on Communist support. In recent months he has jailed Chinese Nationalists, curbed anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, and permitted the Communist Party to blazon Indonesia with hammer and sickle posters. Several Cabinet members, one the Minister of Defense, are well-known fellow travelers. Last week the opposition brought Sastroamidjojo to a long-delayed vote of confidence. He won by a majority of 23 votes, and without the aid of 19 Communist votes in the Assembly would have squeaked through with but a majority of four. Said Opposition Leader Jusuf Wibisono...
Indeed, says May, "the practice of using ghostwriters and collaborators is so common as to raise doubts concerning even the books in which collaborators are not named. That a publisher should see fit to blazon advertisements of Crusade in Europe with the statement 'Written by Eisenhower himself!' carries alarming implications and the historian's fears were hardly allayed last year when he saw the amazement with which newspapers reported that Governor Stevenson wrote hi? own speeches...
...open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume...
Fighting Fool. In 1943 the papers suddenly began to blazon his name. Spruance got a new duty. Spruance was put in command of a Central Pacific fleet (later designated the Fifth Fleet). On a day in February he became a full admiral-at 57 the youngest in the Navy...