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Murray's fist trembled aloft. "I'm chairman of this committee and I want you to subside. If you don't shut up I'll get these officers in here to have you thrown...
...atmosphere of tension and hysteria Reuther at last went to Convention Hall to hear the decision. With sideline fist fights, near-riots, shouts of "quack, quack" (the auto workers' way of saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of the 60 lady delegates voting for Reuther-labor's most democratic union elected its leader. Reuther squeaked in by a hair (4,444 to 4,320). R. J. Thomas wept and stumbled off the stage...
Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...
...Stalin summoned him to Moscow with orders to curb the zeal of the N.K.V.D., which was making the state more enemies than it was catching. Beria promptly purged the purgers, began what for Russia was a comparatively kid-gloved regime. Was it time again for the iron fist...
...Diana, gave Tierney what-for, as he stood there with his shirt off, "like Tarzan." And furthermore, she said: "You dreary, dreadful actor, if you want to fight, hit me." Then she slapped his face eight times. The party, given by Artist John Decker, climaxed in six simultaneous fist fights, but nobody but Jack LaRue lost enough blood to be worth bothering about...