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...girl and brushed aside two proffered sacrifices-a reporter and an assistant editor, both of whom quickly identified themselves as "not the man you want to see." The marines finally reached the office of cigar-chewing Managing Editor William C. Wren. They told him in purple, ear-banging marine lingo what they thought of the editorial. Said the marines politely: apologize for the slur, or give us space to reply...
Mexico City's conservative newspaper Excelsior ran a daily polemic against the Big Three, topped off by an anonymous psychiatrist who diagnosed Rivera and Sequeiros, in all the polysyllabic gobbledygook of psychiatric lingo, as absolutely nuts. Rivera, he declared, was a paranoiac operating on a 120-150 day cycle between publicity-seeking outbursts. He labeled Sequeiros as a similarly pathological disturber of the peace, and recommended as a cure that both be removed from circulation...
...British military lingo for furloughs granted because of domestic emergencies...
...Uncle Joe" promptly adopted it. Just as promptly it was dubbed in arsy-versy army lingo, "Operation Mallory Major." It was a sequel to "Operation Strangle" (TIME, May 8), in which German supply routes to central Italy were torn apart in preparation for the push on Rome...
Comic to Cult. It took Mexico City to turn Tin Tan from a comic into a, cult. A year ago Tin Tan was a little-known radio actor in Juarez, where he had picked up his lingo in border cantinas. Actually he speaks excellent Spanish but very poor English. He got his first spot in a live show last summer, at the time of the Los Angeles zoot-suit riots, adopted the zoot-suit as a satiric badge. His act was a flop till he went to Mexico City, where he became the rage overnight...