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Illinois. Republican Richard B. Vail of Chicago, another former member of the Un-American Activities Committee, was the only Congressman closely identified with anti-Communist activity to be defeated. The man who beat him: old (70), breast-beating Barratt O'Hara, who was the youngest lieutenant governor in Illinois history in 1913, who beat Vail in 1948 and lost...
...exception, however, is David Haw-breast stroke entry at the recent Olympiad turned thumbs down on Yale and chose Harvard...
...eighteen Hawkins holds every Australian breast stroke record there is. He is the British Empire champion at 200 meters. At our National A.A.U. Championships held in August he took two third places. There is only one faster breast stroker in an American college today, Ohio State's senior Jerry Hollan...
...years later he jumped from third in the state to first in the British Empire with a win in the 200 moter championship race at the Empire Games in New Zealand. The next year, he won two Australian championships and broke every existing Australian breast stroke record...
...Rose and Crown, O'Casey tries to straighten out this snarl, and his means are neither new nor pleasing. He describes the great houses in detail-the Sheraton, the Chippendale, the mother-of-pearl, the ebony, the sparkle of diamonds on "a white and saucy breast." It was a spectacle, he says, "that fair dazzled the eye," and he admits that he found it "elegant," "gracious." even "delightful at times." But he then goes on to say how much it disgusted him. Moreover, his hostesses were all deaf and seemed not to hear when he cried: "Come, sell...