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...when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping the adhesive tape of romance and pretension from the Spanish civil war, The Revenge for Love so stung drawing-room leftists that the book was boycotted with silence in Britain, not even published in the U.S. Read with the hindsight of 1952, the novel remains a remarkable political satire, one whose plot now ranks as prophecy and whose story blends into history...
Black Eye, White Wine. During the tournament's three days, the air buzzed with flying disks and gyrating Schinden. One Hornnss-stung player was borne off with a brain concussion. At a beer counter, another casualty stood with his head bandaged and his eye black-the victim, like half a dozen others, of a falling Schindel. At tournament's end, Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points...
...crown. As Pacote belts away whisky to blunt the knife of fear in his stomach, his hand-me-down society mistress taunts him as "a picknose peasant ... a shell of a man . . . who's so shot he has to drink his guts out of a bottle." Stung, Pacote throws a glass of whisky in her face, and she snarls: "I hope they make a sieve out of you today...
...Carter jabbed, poked and stabbed almost at will, while Salas shuffled around the ring, gloves drawn cocoon-like over his face. Every once in a while Salas burst out in a flurry of short-armed punches. For ten rounds it was a monotonous repetition of the first bout. Then, stung by a Carter punch, Salas began to fight...
...deliver it to Noel. A few days later, A.P. had a set of P.W. pictures taken by Noel. Though they had been censored by the Communists, they were the first pictures out of North Korea by a Westerner, and got a big play in U.S. papers. The United Press, stung by the beat, struck back with its own photos of General Dean, taken by a Communist correspondent...