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...Stuka dive bombers came to an end last week with a few words in Washington. It was just ten years after the invasion of Poland, four years after the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, and an appropriate occasion for summing up-the kind that President Harry Truman rarely lets slip by unnoticed...
...headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate for the Senate, might slip...
King George's ailing legs felt well enough for him to slip into his kilt at Balmoral Castle and cut loose in a Scottish reel...
...ceremonies the night before, when Appling tied the Rabbit's record, Maranville-was on hand to congratulate him, Senator Clyde Hoey of North Carolina (Appling's native state) made a speech, and the White Sox management presented him with an envelope containing a blank slip of paper, in lieu of a bonus check for an" unnamed amount which the management promised to pay him later. Luke celebrated the occasion by rapping out two hits in four times at bat and handling his three chances in the field perfectly. The White Sox won the game...
...party, moved to New York City and began rising in the party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...