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...afternoon of the Tribuna attack, hooligans tore down the Soviet Embassy's shield. Moscow translated the incident into a "stoning" of the embassy, put Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandão and his entourage of nine under hotel arrest. Only when the Rio Soviet Embassy staff of 32 were safely off for Montevideo would Pimentel & friends get exit visas...
Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle long ago concluded that "people have more fun than anybody." Last week the colonel was having more fun than most, dishing out his own peculiar brand of nonsense on Vaughn Monroe's glittery variety show...
...lived the rest of her days on the Continent, never bothered to speak anything except English. Her favorite word was "superb," which she applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap. She detested "Bohemianism, quaintness, affectation, whimsy, and-above all-effeteness." In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point...
Still somewhat groggy from injuries and bruises received in previous games, Dick Harlow's men will lineup today without a single contact scrimmage under their belts this week. With Houston and Pierce out of action, the Stadium crowds can expect to see a brand new brace of starting tackles, Dean Markham and John Gorczynski. Nick Rodis appears ready to take some of the pressure off these two, but after that, the quality of the material is pretty diluted...
...likes to be called Oscar. "I don't like anything," he once said, "that is going to separate me from the common people who may need my help. I have D.D. degrees from two colleges, but they have never been used on my stationery-they are brand-new." Once when he visited President Roosevelt after the legalization of 3.2% beer, Baptist Johnson cracked: "Mr. President, we are back...