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...Johnston, a Claghorn orator himself, retorted with glaring eye: "I'm for segregation of the races. God started it and I believe in keeping it that way . . . I'm for state's rights. But you have got to be in the ring with a man to fight him-not whooping and hollering on the sidelines...
...handsome hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well covered with idiosyncratic muscle and flesh, to produce a sound, natural cursive...
George Loeus, Army starter, allowed but four hits, but suffered from lack of control. Only two midshipmen could solve Locus' deliveries: Howie Johnston slammed a triple, double, and single; catcher John Burrington got Navy's only other safety, a bunt single...
Following Man. Everywhere there were the high-school bands, swarms of schoolchildren. In little towns where a President had never been seen, crowds were often bigger than the population. A large man with a speckled mustache appeared among them, listening intently. Reporters quickly spotted him. He was Vic Johnston, a hireling of the G.O.P. National Committee, sent to keep tabs on Truman. Johnston had chartered a private plane, was waiting on the platform at every major stop, issuing depreciatory statements. Truman was amused, genially invited him aboard. Johnston sheepishly declined...
Explains Australian Author George Johnston, who wrote High Valley in collaboration with his wife: "I was the journalist who supplied the substance. She was the artist who supplied the burnish." Journalist Johnston's substance is the old story of the penniless youth who falls in love with the headman's daughter ("She has the eyes of a gazelle, he thought"), only to find that his suit is hopeless be cause she has been betrothed since child hood. To make matters worse, a tithe-collecting lama visits the valley and de mands a night with gazelle-eyed Veshti...