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Another man mentioned as possible successor to Chiang was Defense Minister Ho Ying-chin, who leads the Whampoa Military Academy clique. If, as seems likely, the Gimo had a hand in picking his successor, he would probably prefer...
...opulent glow of El Morocco's Champagne Room in Manhattan, sat a swarthy pop-eyed man with a vast double chin. His companion was a beautiful young woman. "My dear," he was heard to say, "you just don't know what I could...
...politician here makes a speech denouncing the United States. For my own purposes I can always get a copy of the speech or listen to it on the radio. But for TIME you would have to be on the scene-to know whether his tie was under his chin or drooping to his waist, whether he gulped water from a pitcher or a jug or a glass, etc. You would have to know whether his wife was on the speaker's stand nodding her head affirmatively, negatively, or not at all because she was reading the comic strips...
...quietly while an FBI agent questioned him. He talked candidly. But his eyes were fixed on the agent, and especially on the revolver which he carried in an open holster on his belt. As the agent leaned forward to write, Fox grabbed the pistol, got the end under his chin and pulled the trigger. The old bank robber toppled backward, dead...
...generation. Momentarily on the sidelines, rival Publisher Boddy told the Times to take heart: "Nearly a quarter of a century ago," he wrote, "we adopted a penniless, tattered little brat that was languishing in bankruptcy . . . It kept on keeping on until it has, I fear, become somewhat respectable. So chin up, Norman, it can be done...