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...great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau warned: "Strikes are almost certain to occur and Social-Democratic and Catholic unionists may stop Anglo-American bullets on the picket lines if trouble starts. If some trigger-happy Tommies or G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
...Vishinsky's U.N. tantrum (TIME, Sept. 29) proved anything, it proved that Russia did not want war now, and was trading vituperation for time. What the seizure of the three Americans at Trieste proved was that Russian aggression had made several frontier situations in Europe so hair-trigger that a hotheaded act on either side could cause shooting which might be very hard to stop again...
...Achmadjahm has not answered. Sinkiang's Governor General Masud Sabri has posted red-lettered public warnings in Tihua streets: "None may plot murder against officials, carry illegal weapons, secretly trail or torture others, incite mobs to violence." Trigger-ready militiamen patrol oasis towns. Upon Peitashan's snowy heights the Outer Mongolians are reported to be receiving reinforcements and probing the Chinese lines...
...again, and this time the pennant -and the Dodgers' none-too-healthy 4½-game lead-was at stake. The Cards, somewhat housebroken descendants of the rough-&-tumble Gashouse Gang, were lighting back, late and hard. In the second inning, Jackie Robinson was spiked again -this time by trigger-tempered Catcher Joe Garagiola...