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...stinging indictment: "From China to Switzerland to North Africa." At the top of another page is a string of photos labeled "Dear to the Hearts of Left-wingers are these controversial figures." Here we find composer Aaron Copland, "recently appointed to a choice chair at Harvard"--and Owen Lattimore, "stung by accusations, he wrote a whimpering lament." The editors of "American Legion" add that this article "Makes the Harvards look ingenuous." It may at that, but only by comparison...
...Carthage Hydrocol Inc., an outfit which makes aviation gasoline from natural gas. Unpaid by the Republicans, Gabrielson was getting $25,000 a year as Hydrocol's president and counsel. Democrats had been tipped off to this juicy item by RFC's Stuart Symington, but the Republicans, stung by the turn of events, had beaten them to the punch. Gabrielson hotly defended himself, saying that as a Republican he had no influence with the RFC. Senator Williams replied that Government officials, knowing that there might be a change of Administration next year, were not necessarily immune to the influence...
...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...
...Smutty Passages." A bourgeois himself, he hated the bourgeoisie. His displeasure buzzes through the letters, becomes almost shrill after the loss of part of his fortune in a family lumber venture. When the Paris censors declared Madame Bovary immoral, Flaubert was stung in his deepest selfesteem, hit back with fighting fury. As ammunition for the hearing, he collected "the greatest possible number of smutty passages drawn from ecclesiastical writers, particularly from contemporaries." Flaubert routed the prosecution, afterwards exulted in a visceral little report to his brother: "We gave it to them there, hot and strong...
...Detroit, Edward Jefferson was acquitted after he told the judge how he happened to knock a policeman to the sidewalk: "I saw a big bee land just above the officer's collar on the back of his neck and I didn't want him to get stung, so I hit the bee as hard as I could...