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...Sixth District. Lieut. Commander William H. Bates, U.S.N., was running for the seat his father held until his death in the Eastern Air Lines plane crash over Washington National Airport last November. Candidate Bates, 32, a football star at Brown and a Navy veteran of the Pacific, ran afoul of Navy regulations against politicking and had to stick to his job as ships' service officer, but he had the doorbell-ringing help of women's organizations in the traditionally Republican Sixth. * His Democratic opponent in the Feb. 14 finals: Richard M. Russell, 58, three times mayor of Cambridge...
...read a letter in the London News Chronicle by a father who reported that Mother Goose was playing hob with the children. His own five-year-old daughter, he reported indignantly, had come home in tears after hearing about Mother Goose's three blind mice who had run afoul of the farmer's wife, had their tails cut off by a carving knife. Geoffrey Hall decided forthwith to turn out some nicer rhymes...
...recent decisions, Howe said, the Supreme Court has indicated that it, and not Congress, has the right to settle the question of "immediate danger." Because the Smith Act runs afoul of these decisions, Howe said, "My personal vote would be that it is unconstitutional...
Last week sallow, bigheaded Robert G. Thompson, New York State chairman and a member of the Communist national committee, took the stand and promptly ran afoul of the new Medina. Thompson had been head of Ohio's Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. Had he ever used the party slogan: "The Yanks are not coming?" Thompson was vague: "Very possibly ... in all probability . . . it would have been consistent with policy at that time ..." Judge Medina broke in impatiently: "That's a regular formula. It's maybe this, and maybe that, or I may have...
Homework has run Victor A. Conrad, Ward Research associate in Climatology, afoul of the Cambridge housing ordinances...