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Carlo Tresca, of whom it was said that the first word he learned in English was "guilty." In 1937 she dismayed her Socialist friends by joining the Communist Party, and her activity in strikes from coast to coast landed her in jail a dozen times. She began her longest prison term in 1955 when she was convicted with other U.S. Communist leaders un der the Smith Act on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the government and spent 28 months at the Women's Federal Reformatory at Alderson, W. Va. By then, Elizabeth was no longer a slim...
...mile Aqueduct Stakes, first of New York's late-season weight-for-age races. "He'll beat Gun Bow, you wait and see," insisted Mrs. du Pont. Few in the Labor Day crowd of 65,066 agreed with her. They sent Kelso off at 2-1, his longest odds in 19 months. The odds...
...resplendent as the result of cleaning and restoration; the Parisian feasts at the most majestic table in the world, and all around him are the signs of his country's prestige. The swift Caravelle jet carries the name of France through the skies, and the world's longest liner, the France, carries it across the seas. French military power, so often frustrated, can take at least symbolic pride in its minuscule atomic strike force. The nation's population, which had been shrinking before the war, has grown from 40 to 48 million, and the gross national product...
...daffy," said George, and for the next 35 years she was indeed-a treasure trove of malapropisms, non sequiturs and nit-witty ideas that somehow always managed to pan out just before the commercial, making Gracie and her husband George one of the earliest, and certainly longest-lived situation comedy teams...
...decisions at the turn of the century and by crippling restrictions in the early '30s. Last week, at last, their dream seemed close to reality. Dismissing cries of monopoly, an examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission recommended approval of a merger that would create the nation's longest railroad, much as the empire builders wanted...