Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the heading "Dithyrambic With Key" El Pampero had printed a harmless lampoon of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But the first letter of each line, joined in descending order, spelled out the less harmless acrostic: Hay que ser inglés para ser hijo de puta (One must be English to be a son of a whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero...
...weeks ago John Herr lost two of his crack outfits when the First and Thirteenth, long since mechanized, were transferred from the Cavalry to the new Armored Corps (TIME, July 8). Last week the National Guard Bureau announced that its 19 cavalry regiments would shortly trade in their hay-burners for gas-eating trucks and guns...
Aquaplaning is.nothing more than standing on a broad, flat board, hanging onto a rope and being towed by a motorboat. But, at 50 m.p.h. hanging-on is no hay ride. Usually, less than half the starters finish (falling off, however, does not disqualify). Despite padded shin guards and taped hands, those who finish invariably require first aid-for sprained wrists, numbed feet, bruises from flying fish as well as falls. Many are carried from the finish-line to a hospital...
...bearded Candidate Arlon B. ("Cyclone") Davis, son of the late, famed Populist Leader Cyclone Davis, who campaigned in an Uncle Sam suit of red-&-white striped pants, blue jacket, with a tall beaver bonnet, and told Texans he would "eat earthworms, drink branch water, and sleep on Johnson grass hay" to get Lee O'Daniel out of office...
Result is that in spite of a socialite board of directors (including John Hay Whitney, Marshall Field III, Philip K. Wrigley, Lessing Rosenwald), PM has a leftist aroma. Fortnight ago, when a sheet was passed around newspaper offices, accusing various members of his staff by name of being Communists or Communist-sympathizers, Publisher Ingersoll published the charges, invited FBI to investigate...