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Miss Day, who is 26, Mormon-bred, and does not smoke or drink, had an appropriate answer for that one. "Judge, why do you crucify me?" she asked. "Don't you want me to be happy?" The judge looked stern. "We did it on the spur of the moment," seconded 39-year-old Leo, hopefully. But Judge Dockweiler, apparently, had never seen the Dodgers play...
Nevertheless some hope remained that the move would spur the nationalists into giving their government a broad base of "liberal" elements as urged by Marshall upon his return this month to become Secretary of State...
When twenty-five members of the Mountaineering Club withdraw this weekend to their Spur Cabin retreat on Mt. Washington and wait for the new term, it will be just another in a long series of such excursions which has marked HMC activities in recent months...
Power Is the Spur. To bring under control this vast interplay of seemingly irresistible forces and immovable bodies would take more than the fanaticism of Moslem Leaguer Mohamed AH Jinnah, more than Jawaharlal Nehru's eloquent idealism, more, perhaps, than Gandhi's combination of mysticism and manipulation. India needed an organizer. It had one. Gandhi listened to God and passed on his political ideas to Vallabhbhai (rhymes with "I'll have pie") Patel; Patel, after listening to Gandhi, translated those ideas into intensely practical politics...
...hospital and New York University's College of Medicine (which are raising $2,500,000 to give the institute a building of its own), it is directed by Dr. Howard A. Rusk, who ran the A.A.F.'s wartime convalescence program. The institute, Rusk explained, hopes to spur a nation-wide attack on a problem greater than that of disabled veterans: disabled civilians. During World War II, seven times as many civilians as G.I.s became amputees...