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...term hour exam grades went into the Dean's Office yesterday and some people are due for a shock when they find that spring fever has crept into summer...
...most U.S. citizens, not deeply versed in British politics, the big shock was the news that Winston Churchill had been turned out by the people he had led through to victory (see FOREIGN NEWS). Americans had not been thoroughly apprised of the situation in Britain: that the people desperately wanted a change in government, that they had their eyes mainly on reconstruction...
...fact that the winning party was also a socialist party had its shock, too. Said Mayor J. A. Horger of Hondo, Tex. (pop. 2,500): "I was disappointed. I think they should have kept him in office. I don't favor this socialism and such." The New York Daily News, which has no love for socialists, interpreted it all as an unseemly British bender...
Noble lords grew apoplectic. Bishops harrumphed. Even venerable flunkeys quailed. Seldom, if ever, in the 121 years of its existence, had the learned members of London's venerable club, the Athenaeum, received so rude a shock...
Wounded in the thigh, Red Army Private Valentin Cherepanov lost so much blood that he died. The attending surgeon certified: "Death following shock and acute hemorrhage...