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Then, with the firm but nervous air of a bespectacled student standing up to the school bully, ex-Professor Douglas began tapping at the President's chin. In a speech before A.F.L. retail clerks, Douglas, an 80% Fair Dealer, deplored the "tendency for the leaders of groups, as they grow powerful, to want only yes men in their organization...
Irving H. Saypol, a stocky New Yorker with a firm chin, is now the nation's No. 1 legal hunter of top Communists. He helped Tom Murphy prosecute Alger Hiss, collaborated in the trial of the top eleven Communists and-after becoming U.S. Attorney in New York last year-convicted William Remington and Atom. Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Last week Prosecutor Saypol was busy as a sheepdog. He was trying to keep a handful of second-string Communists within the law's purview, to make sure that they are still on hand when it comes time...
Stuart portrait of George Washington, his 31st successor, Harry Truman, took one look at the picture and said: "He hasn't got his wooden teeth." Art experts called in a dental expert with calipers to measure Washington's nose, upper lip and chin, then compared the findings with similar measurements of other Stuart portraits. His verdict: President Truman is undoubtedly right; Stuart painted this portrait with the famous dentures missing...
...when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry's jaw was set. "No," he answered. Constable Muckle rubbed his chin. "Will you produce it within two days at a police station?" he asked. "No," said Harry Willcock...
...first round, Murphy's wild uppercuts, jabs and crosses chopped a cut in LaMotta's chin. LaMotta, whose own style is modeled on an alley-fighter's slugging tactics, never had a chance. By the end of Round Seven, bleeding from seven cuts, his eyes puffed almost to closing, and gagging on his own blood, durable Jake LaMotta, whose proudest boast is that he has never been knocked down, had had enough. Too weak to rise from his corner for Round Eight, LaMotta called it quits...