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...fell face down on the road. They were upon him in a minute, and he gathered himself together with his head in his arms and his knees drawn against his stomach. . . . They tore his shirt from him and his trousers and beat him until the breath sagged in his chest and his head lolled helplessly in the dust. Then they withdrew a little and provided themselves with stones...
Steve Beder '47 was elected to a non- voting position on the Council. The annual charity budget was made up and Phillips Brooks House gets its share of $100. The Community Chest profited by $1000 as an allotment from the Council. The Red Cross was given a $500 sum to keep its activities functioning...
...first week witnesses were offered by the prosecutors, Attorney General Eric Hallinan and Special Crown Counsel Alfred Francis Adderley, Negro member of London's Middle Temple. Evidence collected at preliminary hearings last summer was presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned up and the wild...
...white-collar and uppercrust vote. But this time the restive, powerful United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) wanted a man of their own. They picked FitzGerald, a balding Irish attorney who showed surprising strength in 1940 as a Democratic opponent to veteran Senator Arthur Vandenberg. U.A.W. gathered a $30,000 war chest, lavished most of it on last week's primaries, and got out the biggest local labor vote since...
Assault on Strong Points. Next morning, Willkie was again seated at an important breakfast. This time at the Coconut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel, he was principal speaker at the opening of Los Angeles' War Chest drive. Again Willkie was an added starter, as the breakfast had been long planned. It was not a political speech, but it gave him an opportunity to address 1,000 influential Angelenos...