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Quinn had plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa [The pass is the enemy of man]," and sometimes they would hurl an insult: "Let the Prime Minister give his own wife a pass if he wants them...
Died. Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze, 80, Cornell-educated Chinese diplomat, twice (1921-29, 1933-37) China's chief envoy to the U.S., in 1945 senior adviser to the Chinese delegation at the San Francisco United Nations conference; in Washington...
Nixon: "The vice hatchetman" of the Republican Party (Clement); "the chief function of the Vice President should not be that of a political sharpshooter for his party. It should not be that of providing the smear under the protection of the President's smile" (Candidate Estes Ke-fauver); "the White House pet midget, Moby Dick Nixon and his whale † of a pup, Checkers" (Kerr...
...Having played his role of underdog to the hilt, Toriello wound up with a grandiloquent appeal to the Liberator Bolivar (who lies buried in Caracas) and won the conference's first ovation. Argentina's Foreign Minister rushed up to wring his hand. Said another South American delegate: "Ke said many of the things some of the rest of us would like to say if we dared...