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...frantic yells of two roommates brought Cambridge's Fire Department Rescue Squad to Stoughton 16 last night when John Rodman '54 tripped and twisted his ankle on a staircase...
...peace is explained, in part at least, by the army's ferocity in assassinating its enemies in the government, as well as by its success in dissolving any cabinet that opposed its views. Even after the fall of Okinawa, the supreme command was determined to fight on, ignoring frantic Japanese diplomatic moves to negotiate a peace through Russia's good offices...
Touchdown Leap. The mammoth brown bear that rose up from the dead was the last one Hunter Hasselborg ever hunted professionally. To escape, he made "a sailing leap, the kind a frantic quarterback makes when the goal line and winning touchdown are almost his," and landed face-down in a shallow gulley. While the bear clawed his back to ribbons and chewed away the muscles in his shoulder, Hasselborg hugged the earth, finally blacked out. Later he awoke to find the bear gone. It took hours to get himself into his homemade boat, and it was two days before...
...board, which has charge of coordinating all military procurement, was revamped when the services were unified in 1947. In hopes of avoiding the frantic military buying and confusion which marked the start of World War II, the board first efficiently simplified the procurement methods of the three services. In some cases, it directed one of the services to buy goods for all three; the "Army, for instance, also buys the food for the Navy and Air Force...
Bits & pieces of the comedy are pretty funny; they always have been. But they are too widely scattered, and often too forced, to give Fancy Pants pace and consistency. Before it is over, Hope is attacking his material with the frantic determination of an untested comic who has begun to notice a certain restlessness in the audience. The result is not guaranteed to keep the peasants from reaching for the popcorn...