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...from TIME into the figure's head. The portrayal of the head indicates that the reader is in a mental tailspin, and confusing thoughts are shown arising from his brain. [He] is relaxing uncomfortably in an impossible reclining attitude. His le:s are crossed and there is a banana peel under one foot, which he seems likely to slip on when he gets up. An Irish setter is asleep on the floor...
...awful to Big Boss Leahy. "If I only had a breakaway back," he mourns, adding that Notre Dame this year will probably play a good deal of "Minnesota football''' (three yards at a crunch). Leahy prefers tricky overhand laterals and daring forwards with trade names like Banana, Swerve, Flair, Stop & Go, Rainbow...
...Chiquita Banana. 4. Rumors Are Flying...
...Banana Split. In tropical Costa Rica, the U.S. embassy staff got from Washington a Department of Commerce questionnaire on local prospects for snowshoe sales...
Jungle Tyranny. The vagaries of U.S. policy, to whose tune the banana dictators dance, helped tyrants hang on. Last winter, when Spruille Braden's blasts against tyranny were loudest, Dictators Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Tiburcio Carías Andino of Honduras behaved almost like gentlemen. Jail doors swung open, the press spoke up, elections were promised. Now rumor whispered that Bradenism was on the way out (vigorously denied in Washington last week) and the Strong Boys were strutting again...