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...children's ears than they are today. (Later, of course, many of the songs were expurgated and tied with pink and blue ribbons.) Often as not, nursery-rhyme characters were said to have had real counterparts, ranging from stern deans (Dr. Fell) to crooked stewards (Jack Horner) to lovely chippies (Alice, or Elsie, Marley). Everyone knows that my pretty maid said: "I'm going a-milking, sir." But in 1698 some of the lines...
...Press Secretary James Hagerty's news conference, reporters found a complete stranger sitting front and center. With a Little Jack Horner smile, Hagerty introduced his guest as Vernon Bradley, a real-estate man from Springfield, Mass. Bradley had come to Washington to see Dwight Eisenhower and to announce that he would run for Congress in Massachusetts' Second District. Added Hagerty: "The President wished him well...
With the air of a Little Jack Horner just back from his own special corner, Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen hustled up to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week to put across the point that he had been a very good boy indeed. He had stuck his thumb into world economic problems at the London conference (Britain, France, the U.S.) last fortnight, and the plum he was holding up for the Senators to see was a U.S. decision to go along with an expansion of trade in "nonstrategic" items between the West and Russia...
Danger by the Dozen. Foulkes's activities were giving many Britons a new awareness of Communism in the labor movement. The general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers is a Communist, Arthur Horner. There are three Communists on the 15-man executive of the National Union of Railwaymen. The Communists are under heavy attack from the powerful and conservative Trades Union Congress, and have lost strength in recent years. But as one railway unionist warned: "They'll always be a danger, even if there are only a dozen of them, because wherever there's a pimple...
Navy drew first blood when Midfielder Jack Horner intercepted a pass, wove his way down the field 50 yds. to Army's goal, and expertly flipped the ball past the Army's goalie John Johnson. Moments later, Navy's Horner and Army's Charles Lavender almost drew real blood with a sticks-jabbing row. At halftime, underdog Navy held a slim 4-3 lead. In the dressing room, Army Coach Morris Touchstone bluntly told his players: "If we can't beat this team, we don't deserve the title...