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...gravely damaging misstatement from the Sunday Express. The points of misstatement were many but one in particular which attributed to me the statement that I am alive and Christ is not was so damaging to the Christian church that I took immediate legal advice and the Express kindly and forthwith inserted a letter in which I denied making any such statement, adding that to me Christ was never more alive than he is today...
...Boshi, the abbe hastily got the seat of government moved to Brazzaville. There he somehow managed to increase his majority in the Parliament from one seat to seven. Opangault again and again charged bribery, and announced that he and his party would boycott Parliament unless the Premier forthwith set a date for new elections. Last week the ultimatum expired, and the fighting began...
...rarely better than in Ghana. When the pet ostrich of chic Madame Claude de Guirin-gaud, wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame's distress...
...Canadian horse shows in its first Western Hemisphere appearance since 1954. forthwith fired Coach Andy Phillip, replaced him with Star Center Ed Macauley...
...limited, however, to a single theme, nor to rostrum repartee. It lent itself to schemes of a sometimes highly elaborate variety. During Curley's first (and successful) campaign for Congress in 1910, his opponent William J. McNary elaborated on the theme of his own integrity to eventually tedious lengths. Forthwith, Curley summoned one of his indigent acquaintances, suited him up in Grecian-like robes, put a lantern in his hand, and set this Diogenes out upon the streets of South Boston. His inability to find the honest man McNary was attended by sufficient cameramen and reporters to ensure the Curley...