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...facilities are open to all Freshmen, but we alone are constantly within banister distance of them. Who but us can sleep till 8.28 A.M. and still reach our orange-juice before the grim-faced guardian of the portal bars the way with her flimsy-looking but entirely effective plush rope...
...year-old husband, a rickety old man with wens on his face, remarked: "She's all right now, I guess. . . . I guess they did a pretty good job." Near Philadelphia their son, William Denston, a motorcycle policeman of Lower Merion Township, showed reporters a piece of rope. "Yes," he said, "I was there. I'm satisfied." Said the sheriff of Somerset County: "Investigation? Oh, yes. Well, boys, I was right in the thick of that affair. . I looked right in the faces of some of that mob and I didn't recognize a single soul...
...witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...
...Minute Alibi (by Anthony Armstrong; Crosby Gaige & Lee Shubert, producers). London has been excited about this play for the past ten months, and no wonder. Less ghoulish than Rope's End, as cleverly constructed as A. A. Milne's classic thriller The Perfect Alibi, Playwright Armstrong's piece leaps nimbly over all the stenciled pitfalls which ensnare such pedestrian efforts as Keeper of the Keys...
Since June the ambiguous wording of the law on collective bargaining has forced NRA to walk a tight-rope on "open" and ''closed" shops. General Johnson banished those words from NRA's dictionary but that did not settle the issue. But National Labor Board has conducted workers' plebiscites in an effort to determine the strength of union sentiment in strike-closed shops. But even where a majority favors union representation, the law nowhere gives that majority the right to bargain collectively for a non-union minority...