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...years as a U.S. Representative, Republican Edwin Arthur Hall of Binghamton, N.Y. put his thumbprint on not one important piece of legislation, but worked his fingers to the bone doing 250,000 favors (by his count) for his constituents. He campaigned under a slogan of his own: "Hall for all means all for Hall...
...recent years, the black 97% of Kenya's population has banded together in a dozen fanatic, anti-white secret societies run by witch doctors and pledged to the slogan: "Africa for the Africans." One called itself the "Men of God"; another was the "Spirits of the Dead," led by a soccer player named Elijah, who used his soccer medals to persuade the tribesmen that he was divine. The Mau-Mau is the most feared and successful of them all. From their jungle hideouts, Mau-Mau raiders burn the huts of tribesmen who go to work for the white...
...things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan, 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum'* -Don't let the bastards wear you down-but in politics they do wear you down, as they wore down Steve's reluctance. I hope they don't wear him down any further." Despite his affection for Stevenson, he says: "Perhaps the time...
Monopoly. In Milwaukee,. Stripteaser Patricia McQuillan, whose bust, she says, is insured for $50,000 with Lloyd's of London, filed a $25,000 damage suit against a theater operator for "trademark infringement and unfair competition," charging he advertised other dancers under her slogan: "$50,000 Treasure Chest...
Lemelin came home on crutches, adopted the slogan "Bite the apple where it is still good," developed a technique of bicycling with one foot and changed his swimming style so he could swim three miles a day. In 1941 Lemelin got a job as office manager of his uncle's lumber mill. When he had saved $200, he went to a well-known Quebec surgeon, who suggested an operation for his leg. Meanwhile, Lemelin had been writing a novel, Au Pied de la Pente Douce (The Town Below), which he submitted to the provincial literary contest. The novel didn...