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When Peronistas seized La Prensa in Buenos Aires, they tore down the bronze statue atop the newspaper's building and hacked it into pieces. Symbolically, the statue was a woman representing truth, with a torch in one hand and La Prensa in the other. Last week the arm bearing the torch was unveiled in the building at a triumphant ceremony restoring the plant to Editor-Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz. "We return to our house," he told almost 2,000 loyal ex-staffers and friends...
...John McGraw on third had time to tag him in the teeth with the ball. "Are you going to take that?" snarled Honus' manager, Fred Clarke. Honus bided his time, hit another triple, ran right over the first baseman, scared the shortstop out of his path and tore into third so hard he almost belted McGraw back into the grandstand...
...Pete Lash took a handoff, tore around the right side of the Navy line, away from All-America End Ron Beagle and Tackle John Hopkins, skipped down the sideline and scored. Chesnauskas converted again...
Elsie remembers the night when eight armed men awakened her family, tore up her house, and terrorized her children. They took Henry to a concentration camp, and the Gestapo permitted him to leave the country only because his emigration papers had already been issued...
...even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone hit it," said the Canton manager. "Cyclone" Young had earned a nickname and a place in organized ball...