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...eyes are on Apra, he warned, Aprista pupils must work harder than ever. Classes must be expanded. Discipline, already tight, must be tighter. Aprista workers, said Haya, must learn that strikes are weapons of last resort and must not be used irresponsibly, for "that would be like a traffic cop pulling out a revolver and shooting every time someone crossed the street on a red light...
...everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
...clock when Austin Lyne of Chestnut Hill rallied in the third round to take a decision from Adams House's 145-pound Jerome Franklin, and Lyne's brother, Eugene, cooly and skillfully outboxed stocky Jim Hornig in the decisive third of the 175-pound final to cop the championship...
...chose the most conventional of movie plots, and so could not make the novelty and the frequent nice touches rise above the sluggishness of the whole. The camera eye technique clearly has possibilities in movies that are naturally suited to subjectivity, but in the old missing-woman and private cop hash, it is at best incongruous...
Return Ticket. In River Edge, N.J., a policeman wrote the Rev. Walter J. Poynton a ticket, was forced to admit that he didn't have his own license with him, meekly accepted a ticket himself when the parson called another cop...