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...Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving shows along the road. Now Zell Ingram is a well-known sculptor. Karamu House also is proud of Elmer Brown, who arrived there as a fugitive from a Mississippi chain gang, eventually had his etchings exhibited in the International Print Show...
...false passport, gets jobs for Kern and himself in the Prater, Vienna's famed amusement park. Ruth finds a job in a hospital. Then Hitler marches into Austria, and they light out once more. United again in Paris, Kern and Steiner work for awhile in a construction gang, Ruth in a laboratory. In France, too, there are restrictions against aliens. Ruth finds a way to evade them for herself and Kern. But Steiner, when he hears his wife is dying, goes back to her, to Germany, and to death...
...Jersey popped up in the U. S. Senate last week to introduce a resolution reminiscent of the long-dead concept of Manifest Destiny.* The resolution: to admit Cuba as a State into the Union. The Senator's pop-up was unfortunate for Good Neighborism. In Havana a gang of youths hurled bottles through the plate-glass windows of a Woolworth 5-&-10? store with notes in the bottles saying: "Down with the American Senate!" "This reply to the American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution as an indication of U. S. imperialism, observed that...
...submachine gun never got a real hold in World War I, soon afterward began to figure more in gang news than in Army talk. Of 15,000 Thompsons ("Tommies") manufactured by Colt in 1921, nearly 5,000 were still unsold 18 years later. But World War II revised military opinion: the light, easily handled submachine gun (spitting a stream of .45-calibre bullets 300-400 yards, battle sight-i.e., point-blank range) turned out to be a potent weapon in shock tactics. Recently Great Britain was reported eager to buy 250,000 to 500,000 from...
...course the professors don't call themselves Ku Klux Klanners. They call themselves patriots who are acting in their country's best interests when they gang up on some disagreeable neighbor and run him out of town before daybreak," Waldrop writes...