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There was not much he could say. Crippled by bad advice, bad generalship, bad luck and inexperience, Field had never had much of a chance. Colonel McCormick, always a wily strategist, has never let his prejudices and hobbies keep him from doing a bang-up job of covering the news...
Violence flared throughout the country. In Toulouse, a Gaullist at a Communist meeting was thrown from a theater balcony into the orchestra and died. Comrade Maurice Thorez himself was involved in a bang-up brawl. At a Communist rally, he invited a foolhardy heckler, Socialist Jacques Karaimsky, to come on up and say his say on the platform. Karaimsky did: "Perhaps you have forgotten that . . . Moscow used to feed Germany with wheat and gasoline to kill Frenchmen. And why did Maurice Thorez desert in 1940?" Thorez flushed, then leaped at Karaimsky, and punched him. Some 1,700 other comrades tried...
...dominion of a boyar called Stephen Ivanovich Kuchko who had a pretty wife. A neighboring prince, one Yuri Dolgoruki (meaning Long-Arm),*quarreled with the boyar because (at least according to one version) he wanted Kuchko's wife. Long-Arm seized Kuchko's domains, threw a bang-up banquet on what later became Kremlin hill, and decided that this spot-with its roads and rivers crossing in all directions -would be a good place for a town. He called it Moskva after the river...
Thanks for the bang-up Pamplona bullfight story by Charlie Wertenbaker (TIME, July 21), but . . . unless the wiry "professor" has gained 20 pounds or so-plus a new face-since his Mexican fights last winter, TIME mixed...
Your splendid article on Alaska [TIME, June 16], with the cover showing the 49th star [with question mark] . . . gives warranted attention to the Territory of Alaska and its capable and energetic Governor, Ernest Gruening-energetic, advisedly, for he was recently my partner in tennis, and he plays a bang-up game with a Harvard accent...