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...enough still to be sweltering within reading distance of this item who desire to play a canto or two of "ring around the habeas corpus," or "tibia, tibia, who's got the fibula" with a trio of Cornell Medicos all for the love of a lady, let them apply forthwith to the CRIMSON Building...
...third morning, the authorities released Clarin with orders to get out of the country forthwith. Said Ewan as he staggered ashore with a wretched cold: "All feeling has left my legs." Hoarsely he told the crowd: "I return to England to await further orders. You will hear more of us. The world government must...
Tommy Henrich and Stan Musial, at the moment baseball's leading indispensable men, are alike in temperament and talent-except that Musial cannot sing.* Both are southpaws. Both are versatile outfielders, who have filled in at first base in emergencies (and forthwith won rank among the best first-basemen in their leagues). Unlike many other stars, they are specially distinguished by players and sportwriters as "old pros," team players without ego or flamboyance...
...sanctity of state boundaries, but it protects such local customs as segregated education (in the South), and state aid to parochial schools (wherever it exists). Any attempt to question the merit of these two traditions would, of course, cause a conflagration in Congress and probably kill the present bill forthwith. That is definitely not the object of supporters of federal aid to education. They rightly figure that if compromise will get some money into the public school system, then compromise is currently the ticket for them...
...cheering House of Commons, President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson announced, after more than seven threadbare years, that clothes rationing was ended forthwith. Mr. Wilson publicly tore up his own little red ration book. Demonstrating its ability to get vernally cute, the Board of Trade had called the derationing of clothes "Operation Godiva." Stores braced themselves for a furious stampede of British Godivas clamoring to buy new clothes. But it never came; instead, there was a rush on towels, sheets, handkerchiefs and underwear. High prices kept customers from splurging on clothes, rationed or not. Sagittarius jingled...