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...over last year, and its estimated 1955 premium income is up to $7,000,000, 50% over 1954. It has seven branch offices and 1,250 salesmen. All the salesmen are drys and most are nonsmokers. Sales meetings are held in churches, and the company gets an evangelistic fervor into its selling that makes it seem more of a crusade than a commercial operation...
...take note of the widespread discontent with Labor's leadership. The murmurs had become shouts after Labor's electoral defeat. The Laborite Daily Mirror headlined: ATTLEE MUST GO. Bevanites insisted that Attlee's moderation had cost them the election, that the party must recover its evangelistic fervor - preferably under Nye Bevan himself. Supporters of young (49) Right Winger Hugh Gaitskell hinted that Labor's leadership had become...
...Laborites were chagrined and showed it. Eden's sudden fervor for a meeting of chiefs of government after months of discouraging Sir Winston Churchill from trying, grumbled Clem Attlee, was naught but "a deathbed repentance." "I do not believe the government have seized all the opportunities they might," said cockney Herbert Morrison, Labor's last Foreign Secretary, speaking at Eastleigh in Hampshire. "The Labor government would be more energetic. I mean, compare the mentality of the Tories and the Socialists. We're the lively lot, they're the slothful...
...quarter, French colonials and a few Americans sipped apéritifs on balconies and watched the distant show-most Frenchmen rooting for the terrorists and most Americans for Ngo Dinh Diem. Soon the news looked bad for the French: the young Nationalists, it seemed, were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after the other. Paratroopers stormed the big Binh Xuyen garrison at Petrusky High School in a wild, shouting charge. Among the prisoners taken in one Binh Xuyen bunker: a couple of French noncoms...
Offseason Diversion. For all its violence, lacrosse has had a persistent appeal. Maryland tourists brought it home to Baltimore in the 1880s, and with evangelical fervor made their city the lacrosse capital of the nation. For years, the rosters of All-America teams have read like pages from the Baltimore phone book...