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...road, handed the instrument to the President's Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. Spadework on last week's speech was presumably done in the State Department by specialists like Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis. The President presumably reworked their drafts-adding appropriate passages from Lost Horizon-as his train sped east with few visitors aboard...
...Unbounded Exasperation." One morning two long limousines sped along the road from Nanking to Shanghai. A Union Jack fastened to the radiator of each car was whipped smartly by the breeze. Without warning, about 50 miles from Shanghai, a Japanese plane zoomed down to within 20 yards of the first car, riddled it with machine-gun fire. The driver. Colonel W. A. Lovat-Fraser, British Military Attaché, stopped. Slumped in the back seat, with blood gushing from his middle was 51-year-old, baldish Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugesson, Britain's Ambassador to China...
...with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside visit, had sped back East to take his turn on the mound...
With joy they sped along...
...from four trucks only 150 yds. from the airport office and twice used airport phones to call headquarters. The power company pleaded in the inquiry that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action. But Eastern Air, whose hard-bitten General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker sped to the spot, presently issued a bitter statement completely exonerating the flight personnel and putting the blame squarely on the power company. A damage suit seemed highly probable...