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...started a few days ago when a group of ardent Hitler haters decided to out-hex "Life's" pin stickers, and put a fiery end to Adolf. The originators of the plan picked Joseph P. Lyford '41 as head swami, but, thinking to give him a pleasant surprise, they neglected to tell him of his election until a few minutes before the announced time for the hexing. Then Lyford balked...
...tweedy Colonel Edwin Noel Hardy of Tennessee. Devout horseman, he glories in the 14,000 foals a year that Remount stallions are siring-a value of $1.500,000 at a cost of $80,000. In his Washington office he points proudly to a wall map stuck full of red pins. It is no tactical map; it is full of horse interest. Says West Pointer Hardy, "Wherever you see a pin, suh, theah stands a stallion...
This left the score at 13 to 6. Much depended on Tom Lacey's 165-pound fight, owing to Navy's strength in the higher weight brackets. Therefore the stands roared as Tom threatened to pin his opponent in the first minute. But the sailor managed to wrench himself free, and Lacey had to content himself with a decision...
Labor Leader at Home. Murray moves between three offices: one in S. W. O. C. headquarters in Pittsburgh; two in Washington, in C. I. O. headquarters and in the U. M. W. building. They are all pin-neat. The last is paneled and pretentious. It contains one small picture, of Franklin D. Roosevelt (signed). There Murray looks most like what he is not: a small town bank president. Among the few books on his desk is The Encyclicals of Pius XI, which sets forth the papal views on trade unionism. Murray himself is a "practical" Catholic...
Christ is seldom mentioned reverently in a nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this...