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...What the hell...
...House had passed on to the Senate a pale and eviscerated OPA (TIME, April 29). Had not OPA been damned from hell to breakfast during the war when it stood for gas rationing, food rationing and such nuisances? Had not OPA been damned by farm lobbyists and businessmen after the war? Had not OPA failed to keep prices down? Black markets were rampant (see below). Perhaps the House had thought it was doing a fine thing in crippling OPA. But the House was in for a surprise...
...climbed up on Lord Boswell in the 1⅛-mile Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro, who has ridden many a champion: "He's a hell of a horse-when you really dig into...
...religion are forbidden on Yosian ambles. Members are "of all races, colors and creeds, a sort of walking democracy ... a meeting of the minds as the bodies relax." But there have been troublemakers. Just before the U.S. entered World War II, says Swift, "the Communists made my life hell." It may have been because Swift had broken his own rule and was indulging in subtle counter-revolutionary propaganda, using analogies from nature (ant life...
...clock news, Britain's most popular radio program, Chief Announcer Stuart Hibberd opened his mouth to announce something from BBC's unco-respectable studio. Just then a faulty light signal flashed-Off The Air! Listeners all over the United Kingdom thereupon heard, in cultured tones: What the hell?" (Observed the badly shaken BBC: "Involuntary...