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...Herbert Hoover was aggressively hostile to facts he did not like, and lacking in "sensitiveness toward public affairs." ¶ Franklin D. Roosevelt, under surface shallowness hid "a deep streak of the Dutch." He followed a principle of polarity, i.e., doing two opposite things at the same time (as Frankfurter explains it: "You build a fireproof house and nevertheless take out fire insurance...
...hero is a small, grey pharmacist named Jonathan Rebeck who took fright at the world 19 years before and hid out in a Bronx cemetery. Dodging caretakers and sleeping in a mausoleum, amusing himself by reading and working out chess problems, he has found armistice, if not peace. Jonathan Rebeck sees and talks with ghosts, but his only live companion is a truculent raven who steals food for him, and whose conversation runs more to "The hell you say" than "Nevermore." As the book opens, Rebeck is gnawing a baloney the raven has liberated ("Damn near ruptured myself," the bird...
...Pursuit. In Nashville, Tenn., while Traffic Cop T. J. Slowey hid behind a tree, watching for speeders, his motorcycle caught fire under him, burned...
...about three years in Arabia, thinking through his new faith or preaching it. When he returned to Damascus, trouble was waiting for him. The Jewish community, looking on him as a traitor, had made arrangements with the Governor of the province to have Paul arrested. His fellow Christians promptly hid him, and his enemies, knowing that he must try to escape from the city, set up a constant watch at each of the Damascus gates. There followed the first of the many escapes that make Paul's life something of a Biblical thriller. Under cover of darkness...
...reason of his parliamentary position from political arrest in pre-Hitlerite Hungary, had bolstered the spirits of his refugee flock and outraged local Nazis by flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after 14 days in prison. In Soviet-occupied Hungary's only free election in 1945, the Smallholders Party...