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This year, for the first time, the docile Filipinos cast their ballots under the "block-voting" system, for which Manuel Quezon got his idea from Adolf Hitler's Germany. They could vote a straight party ticket by simply writing in the name of the party. To split the ticket, they had to write down the full names of 27 candidates in a stuffy election booth-while Quezon's watchful ward leaders thoughtfully eyed their clocks...
...shall know but probably not tell you. There are no intelligent influences operating against all the aid to Russia we can afford. That aid is as clearly the obvious policy for Colonel Moore-Brabazon as for Mr. William Gallacher. . . . When the war ends these gentlemen will split in all directions, as Mr. Churchill admits, but until then every enemy of Adolf Hitler is a friend...
These words, written in 1937, came back last week to roost on their writer, apostolic Joseph P. Lash, onetime boss of the left-wing student union. They also brought uneasiness to the U.S. Navy. For 31 -year-old Joe Lash, having split with his pinko friends, had shucked his antipathy for war. He had applied for a commission in the Naval Reserve...
Thimbles, Cards and Rope. Psychiatrist Douglas McGlashan Kelley, who is director of the psychopathic ward in San Francisco Hospital, teaches simple tricks to victims .of certain mental diseases. His theory: patients who have withdrawn into themselves from shyness, inferiority complexes or mild schizophrenia (split personality) can become the life of the party if they are taught parlor magic. The tricks they learn, said Dr. Kelley, "require no brains and can't go wrong...
...half ended with the score still 6 to 0, Hal Tine, substitute for Cowen, put the Crimson on the road to its third victory of the season when he plunged over the Eli goal-line from the two-yard stripe to make the score 12 to 0. Fisher split the uprights to add the extra point...