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...picket line in front of L'Humanité was rushed by 350 members of a Comité de Défense de L'Humanitè, a fancy name for a gang of thugs hired by L'Humanité's circulation department. After a brief battle, the pickets (about half of whom were members of the Communist Party) beat off L'Humanité's defenders. In similar cases capitalist publishers would be likely to charge that the strike was led by Communists. L'Humanité could not do that. Its friends said the strike was led by Trotskyites...
...Gale, the newly appointed Military Governor of Tel Aviv, said the main objective of the marital law decree was to "paralyze and eradicate" the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground resistance groups...
...Spain, is the ex-consul's halfbrother, Hugh, a leftwing, guitar-playing rover who has been in love with Yvonne for years. By nightfall of the same day, Hugh and Yvorme have been drawn together-and the helpless consul is lying dead in a ravine, shot by a gang of Mexican semi-fascist desperadoes who mistake him for his leftist halfbrother...
...Indoor Athletic Building last night and when the battered gladiators finally admitted that it was time to go home, Leverett House had stepped into a first place tie with Dunster by downing a wideopen Winthrop five 29 to 22 and the Elephants had defeated a gas-house Kirkland gang 44 to 41, to cop their first victory of the race...
...Frank ("The Old Flash") Frisch, 48, onetime second-baseman for the New York Giants, and pepperpot manager of the famous St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang," a man who outtalked his foes when he couldn't outplay them, the game's most impish umpire-baiter. He stepped out last fall as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now raises flowers at his New Rochelle (N.Y.) home, hopes to broadcast New York Giant games this season...