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...Perfunctorily and apathetically, the 300 delegates in the ornate Boulevard Room of Chicago's Hotel Continental responded. "Pretend I'm Joan Crawford," cried the chairman. The applause was better, but still not good enough. "Pretend I'm Henry Wallace." The delegates to the "Conference of Progressives" tore the roof...
...election day in Tupelo, Miss, last July, he asked Representative John Rankin to let him take a candidate-voting-for-himself picture. Rankin said no. Snipes snapped a picture anyway. As he walked away, the Congressman jumped him from behind, ripped off his shirt, scratched him, snatched his camera, tore out the film. Result: no picture...
...Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...
...21st day of Ramadan, direct action had killed some 3,000 people and wounded thousands more. Said one weary police officer: "All we can do is move the bodies to one side of the street." Vultures tore into the rapidly putrefying corpses (among them, the bodies of many women & children...
James B. Meredith and Howard L. Parsons were named teaching follows in Romance Languages; Tore Gjelsvik, of the University of Oslo, Norway, research fellow in Mineralogy; Benjamin Paul, research fellow in Sociology; Frederick Wyatt, research associate in clinical Psychology; Frank B. Greehe, D.N. '39, Dentist in the Hygiene Department; and Lloyd C. Harper, associate in Physical Training to the Hygiene Department and the Harvard Athletic Association...