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Highlights of the Summer School conferences was the poetry conference which brought to Cambridge modern poets from all over the world. Numerous footings were held which includes speeches by such prominent figures as Stephen Spender, Pierre Emmanuel, and John Crowe Ransom...
...Seventy-year-old Tom Berry drove Coldstream Stud's King's Ransom in this year's race...
...lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime collapsed...
Weekly conferences highlight the School's program of special events. Among the 40 planned speakers are Max Lerner, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, and John Crown Ransom...
...Smith, by then a corpulent old man, played at the game of dangling his inheritance before a group of younger followers. He was given to fits of genuine madness (he had once lost his wits on a trip to Iceland and accused Gathorne-Hardy of kidnaping him for a ransom). In 1946, in the last weeks of his life, he refused to see the disciple who had been faithful for 17 years, and in the end the inheritance went to another man. Magnanimously, he shared it with the loyal Gathorne-Hardy...