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Behind all the hearts & flowers is Joyce C. Hall, 58, a lean and solemn man who started out, at 18, to become a greeting-card shark by selling postcard greetings in Kansas City. Rollie B. Hall, a brother, joined him there, but they soon realized that postcard greetings were losing favor. Said Joyce Hall: "We found we were developing a dying business." They switched to cards enclosed in envelopes, were soon so successful that they took in another brother, William F. Hall...
...registration passed, and the members of the class came again to the editor in the form of an investigating committee, and asked: "O Editor-in-Chief, when will we have the book you promised us?" And the editor looked solemn, and answered: "The book will be distributed before you are gone for the Christmas holiday (the date is most important, Best Beloved...
Against the walls, Lancers in scarlet coats and blue-and-gold turbans stood like statues' through the blaze of trumpets and the solemn, brief ceremony that followed. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari proclaimed "India, that is Bharat"* a republic, and swore in Prasad. Next, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as Prime Minister...
...would hear a sudden whispered warning, scuttle for the back exits. The slow were overtaken by hard-breathing "bullers" (bowler-hatted, black-coated Oxford cops) who tipped their hats and inquired "Are you a member of the university, sir?" After the inevitable admission, the guilty were led to a solemn and unhurried figure standing nearby in cap & gown-a university proctor-who demanded "Name and college...
...different as two men could be. William Lloyd Garrison was the son of a hard-drinking sailor, Wendell Phillips the son of a rich Boston lawyer. Garrison had picked up scraps of knowledge as a printer's devil, Phillips had been a Harvard dandy. Garrison wore the solemn look of a New England preacher, Phillips sported the manners of a worldly sophisticate...