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...almost unnoticed demonstration of the perishability of men's dreams. The building had been put up as a "phalanstery" or communal living quarters for the North American Phalanx-one of the most successful of all the Socialist colonies which bloomed across the U.S. in the 19th Century. Never as well known as New England's famed Brook Farm, the Phalanx had lasted twice as long and prospered wonderfully. In its heyday, Horace Greeley, Charles Dana and Albert Brisbane (father of the late Arthur Brisbane) were all its ardent advocates...
...Mother-in-Law, Too. Catholic Action reaches into every town, every slum, every factory and every village. Its agents are a strangely assorted phalanx-schoolteachers and schoolchildren, lawyers and factory workers, nuns and union leaders. At Catholic Action headquarters, pink-cheeked girl secretaries race through the long, whitewashed corridors, barely dodging pale, serious priests. They all take their orders from Catholic Action executives...
...third vacancy in the executive phalanx, the political touts figure that somebody is bound to die, retire, or otherwise disappear from among the remaining nine positions. They point knowingly to figures who accompany the President on vacation jaunts (such as Governor Wallgren of Washington, ousted in the recent election). They also point knowingly to figures who do not accompany the President anywhere (such as General Eisenhower). These people, the commentators reveal, are dark horses for the Cabinet, which means that somebody has to get out to make room for them...
Goalposts, always a vital subject to the HAA, fared better Saturday than on other occasions this season. The first phalanx of disgruntled Providence natives discovered a small but firm police cordon which politely informed them that Mr. Bingham felt no compulsion to donate his posts in the light of the final score...
Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...