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Senator McCarran has his reasons for quashing an examination that would jeopardize his position of ringmaster in the anti-subversive circus. His subcommittee has merely relit the old McCarthy charges against the State Department, and the result has been smoke rather than light. By eliminating the Nimitz Commission, Senator McCarran prolongs the security confusion in the best interests of Senator McCarran...
...this circus atmosphere, Ringmaster Baker showed off his newest act-one of the world's most completely mechanized plants. Rock gypsum, mechanically scooped out 20 miles away, is mechanically loaded, hauled to the plant, unloaded, ground, mixed in a paste and sandwiched between paper. Untouched by hand, it is rolled out of the plant as finished gypsum wallboard at the rate of 90 ft. a minute. Total men needed to watch the machinery: 19. In a year, three shifts can produce enough wallboard to build a wall eight feet high from coast to coast...
...heart attack; in Hollywood. Equipped with collapsible legs and an elastic face which he contorted into caricatures of exasperation, bewilderment, bliss or imbecility, he played most often the part of a tottering drunk. In Australia, where he was born, he left a Shakespearian stock company to travel with a circus as clown, acrobat and animal trainer. He came to the U.S. in 1908, rose from burlesque to become one of Ziegfeld's top comedians (Sally in 1920), later went to Hollywood, where he made scores of strenuous two-reelers...
...Ever Hit One . . ." The Giants began putting out in a big way: a 16-game winning streak. They still often fielded like clowns, making breath-taking circus catches-and misses, that earned them next-to-last place in the fielding averages. They still struck out with gusto, but someone usually came up with the game-winning hit at the right time. They began running the base paths with a hell-for-leather dash. The pitchers, steadied by Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen (23 victories apiece), settled down to a routine rotation. Shortstop Dark teamed up perfectly with pepperpot Second Baseman...
...small University Hall Commons sooner or later, the immediate cause of its end was a growing tendency on the part of students to eat elsewhere as often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area...