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Factional Peacemaker. Setting foot on New Jersey soil, Joe Martin stepped squarely into the middle of a fratricidal party brawl over the senatorial candidacy of liberal-minded Republican Clifford Case. No man was better suited than Martin to play the part of factional peacemaker. To Case backers, Martin appeared as President Eisenhower's loyal congressional leader. To Case's right-wing enemies, Martin was as close to a conservative "Mr. Republican" as anybody since Bob Taft. He carried the same message to the politicians who chewed cigars in the back seat of his campaign limousine...
Britain's suggestion of a nine-power conference to be held in London this week was politely shunted aside by Mendès-France (who murmured "premature"), by Adenauer (who feared that haste might result in another Brussels brawl), and by the U.S. State Department, which wasn't ready with ideas...
Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 49, whose Phi Beta Kappa key failed to ward off the rude fisticuffs of husky Cinemug Tom Neal in their brawl over the fickle favors of Cineminx Barbara Payton three years ago, settled out of court with Lloyds of London, accepted $17,500 insurance for his clobbering. In reply to Tone's original $63,666,66 suit, Lloyds claimed, in effect, that he had displayed indiscreet valor by provoking Neal, then by sticking his hitherto unmarred face in the way of Big Tom's flying knuckles...
...cocky young Spike Webb was a comer, good enough to tangle in a nontitle Donnybrook with Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion. But before he had a chance to tackle Kilbane again, Spike was mixed up in a much bigger brawl. As coach of the 29th Division boxing team, he caught the eye of General John J. Pershing. At war's end he trained the A.E.F. boxing team for the Inter-Allied Army games in Paris. Spike has no trouble recalling the most stylish fighter on his squad: a young marine light heavyweight named Gene Tunney...
...players, spectators and officials got in licks with bottles, furniture, glass from shattered partitions and the toe-ends of good solid soccer boots. Swiss gendarmes surrounded the locker room, but for a while all they could do was keep out reinforcements. If it was any consolation, Brazil won the brawl, two casualties...