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...with her own military strength. The pressures are too many; the resources too few. With or without an alliance, Great Britain and the Dominions were tied to the U.S. security system. But the Empire was another matter; and it was the Empire, rather than England or the Dominions, that bore most of the pressure...
...dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
When Boston underwriters Carver & Co. offered 102,000 shares of stock for sale in a new textile company, Ramie Mills of Florida Inc., the prospectus bore a familiar name, long absent from financial documents. President of Ramie Mills and now holder of 37,400 shares of stock is Richard Whitney, five times president of the New York Stock Exchange, who went to jail in 1938 for grand larceny...
William Saroyan, once U.S. letters' Public Show-off No. 1, had become a Garbo for privacy. Since release from the Army last September he had cut nary a public caper-not even last January 11 when Wife Carol bore him their unpublicized second child, first daughter...
Died. George Arliss (real name: George Augustus Andrews), 77, actor and cinemactor who was responsible for the general misapprehension that Disraeli, Richelieu, Voltaire, Wellington and Hamilton bore an astonishing facial resemblance to one another; of a bronchial ailment; in London...