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...cleaning out one more Red-infested corner of its labor empire. This time the man in the corner was 39-year-old Maurice Travis, boss of the militant Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, who lost an eye and several teeth last year as the result of a labor brawl.† In the smoke-filled auditorium of the C.I.O. Steelworkers Washington headquarters, the Clothing Workers' spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky read the indictment, which was also a good case history of how the Communists controlled some U.S. labor unions. Said the Potofsky indictment...
Catastrophe Averted. Postwar Italy's worst parliamentary brawl ended a few minutes later, quelled by chamber ushers acting as a riot squad. "Fortunately," said Milan's moderate Corriere della Sera, "what might have been catastrophe turned into grotesquerie. But the nation is tired of grotesquerie in parliament...
...California city, Gable is an ex-longshoreman who keeps political scamps in line by dumping them into the fish pond in front of city hall. Loretta Young is a prissily elegant mayor from Maine. The two meet at a San Francisco mayors' convention, go through a honky-tonk brawl, two arrests, some smooching in the fog, and, finally, a joint triumph of love and two-fisted political virtue...
...actors' voices offscreen, turning wagon wheels, clashing swords, such shots as clouds racing over a jutting tower. Lighting moves across the screen like an actor, the camera tilts awry at an assassination, the focus blurs as if with pain when Michelangelo's nose is smashed in a brawl...
Dartmouth's murder case received a new development yesterday morning when Vincent Cirrotta, father of the student who was killed in a dormitory brawl last March, bitterly denounced New Hampshire Attorney General William L. Phinney for his handling of the case...