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...Congo, planning to cross the continent to Kenya and Ethiopia, then make his way to Israel before returning to the U.S. He made his own way by hitching rides on passing trucks or jeeps, even in boxcars on the occasional trains that passed; often he slept in the mud huts of natives he had befriended along the route, shared their rude fare at mealtimes...
...morning of April 25, 1951, the name of Harlem-raised Jules (Brute Force, Naked City) Dassin was one of the hotter properties in Hollywood. By late afternoon of that day his name was mud. The difference was made in the few moments it took one of his fellow directors to tell a congressional committee (TIME, May 7, 1951) that Dassin was a Communist...
Kennedy ran into foul weather. The rain that had turned the fields into a sea of sticky mud started up again just as he began to speak. Said he, looking down at some 20,000 damp faces: "I regret the rain, but it rains, as the Bible tells us. on the just and the unjust alike, on Republicans as well as Democrats." He was right: when Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon...
...structural defects have turned up in Princeton's new $3,000,000 dormitory quadrangle, where two buildings recently settled one foot in the mud. Last week, in a third new $520,000 dorm, Princeton Borough Engineer Arthur T. Brokaw padlocked five top-floor rooms as firetraps because of inadequate exits. Said Brokaw, in proper Princeton fashion: "No undergraduates, especially Princeton undergraduates, should be sleeping up there...
...when a starched and proper young Irishman named John Francis Fitzpatrick arrived in Salt Lake City, capital of predominantly Mormon Utah, he found a mud-flinging contest going on between Salt Lake City's morning paper, the Gentile* Tribune, and the Saints' own evening Deseret News...