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...humble circs" but now a status-seeking New Canadian immigrant, Ginger daily imagines his ship will come in even while he founders at some bar. With a flaming red mustache and a bluff military stance acquired in the Irish Army, Ginger leads his troupes of sentimental illusions and heroic reveries straight into the machine-gun fire of reality...
...defense of the Congo mutineer-rapists is thoroughly in line with the well-documented Russian tradition of rape and rapine. I am sure some of your readers must recall the Russian performance in Vienna and Berlin in 1945 when no woman from eight to 80 was safe from those heroic socialistic soldiers of Soviet Russia. No army in modern history committed their bestial crimes against women, with the possible exception of the Japanese in Nanking...
Praising His Looks. Alsop's colleagues were not far behind. Scripps-Howard Columnist Andrew Tully wrote glowingly of the candidate's heroic character: "This was the Jack Kennedy who saved a PT-boat crew in the Pacific's wartime waters." Smiled the Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond: "He is pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving...
...kidney from somebody other than an identical twin. The patient is alive and healthy after 18 months-long enough to suggest that he has a chance of living a near-normal life. Led by Dr. John P. Merrill, the doctors succeeded by subjecting the patient to what they call "heroic measures": an almost killing dose of radiation. They are well aware that this is not the final answer. They want less drastic, probably chemical, means of making grafts "take." The search is already under way, and will be speeded by the preliminary success now reported...
...usual, Moscow suppressed the news as long as it was suppressible. But after dust and sand began falling on Bulgaria, Rumania, and even Yugoslavia and Poland, Radio Moscow guardedly began reporting "dirty rain" around Kiev. Making the best of a bad situation, Izvestia described how 17 "heroic collective farm workers" had shoveled four feet of dust off a hog-farrowing shed near Krasnodar, then stayed around to play midwife to the sows...