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Ever since it gave the old heave-ho to the United Electrical Workers at its convention last November, the C.I.O. has been steadily scraping the rest of the Communist-dominated unions off its shoes. Last week, with six already expelled, it called San Francisco's lean, hawk-nosed Longshore...
Knife-nosed Ludovico Monti was a dedicated man. The most energetic news vendor in Borgo San Lorenzo, near Florence, he had been offered the local agency for many daily papers. But, with the support of his pretty wife Armida, Monti was determined to sell only Unita, the Communist paper which...
Wolves, angry-looking bulls, and dainty deer, their legs straight as toothpicks, had also flocked from Sardinian molds, along with warriors in short tunics and horned helmets. Armed with bows and two-handed broadswords, the warriors seemed much bigger than their few inches. They were long-nosed and popeyed, as...
Later that same day, McConaughy and his staff boarded a train for Tientsin and the U.S. liner General W. H. Gordon. Last week, the General Gordon nosed into Hong Kong Harbor bearing U.S. diplomatic personnel, and 660 other refugees from 26 nations.
Then the professor turned towards one wing of the Peabody's tiny stage, clapped, and commanded: "Here, Palomilla!" Palomilla nosed out from behind a curtain, a buzzing four-wheeled cart which doggedly trailed a flashlight held by Wiener's assistant. Palomilla made mistakes; it ran back into the curtain once...