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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There was the United Nations cats, the Congo cats, and then we had Ghanaian troops all around us. A man gets good protection in the Congo." But Satchmo's best life insurance was his refusal to talk politics: "I just took a John L. Sullivan stance and blew the horn...
...Duke End Tee Moorman: "College football is a business. After you find out the facts, the fun wears off. They give us pencils and paper at Duke, but no hair tonic or gasoline. A fellow needs that stuff in college...
...British people believe we should not commit ourselves to either America or Russia. My response to this is: Are we out of our tiny island minds? America has bailed out the free world since the war with billions of dollars. Many people resent her generosity; but at least let us not impugn her good intentions...
Before the O'Leary Commission, the Canadian publishers and their supporters appealed to Canada's deep reservoirs of anti-American feeling. Said a representative of the Periodical Press Association: "Canadians laugh scornfully when spokesmen of the Soviet bloc call us a U.S. satellite, but are we not in grave danger of becoming a cultural and intellectual satellite when our reading matter becomes so increasingly American?" In rebuttal, representatives of U.S. publications contested the notion that Canadian magazines were suffering unduly, noted that between 1950 and 1959 the ad revenues of Canadian magazines rose from $17 million...
What saved us, what saved us, from those peaks above...