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General Ridgway, the grenades that he carries on his chest glistening in the rain, stepped to the center flagpole. After a momentary hitch caused by a wet lanyard, a huge blue U.N. banner was unfurled, dominating all the flags of nations...
...Madrid a few days before the strike, a newspaper called Voz Social, published by Juan Aparicio López, Falangist editor of the official trade-union organ, Pueblo, made its first (and probably its last) appearance. It violently attacked social and economic conditions under the banner heading: "Clothing, shelter and homes can wait-but food cannot." The Voz Social editorial pointed out that through the offices of ministerial employees, it was a simple matter for black marketeers to obtain import licenses for splendid American convertibles, while farmers were unable to get licenses for tractors; that the building of hospitals...
Incense & Salamanders. Red China, which had been invited but did not respond until after the closing date for entries, sent nine "observers," who presented the federation with an engraved enamel incense burner and a red silk banner inscribed: "We wish the first Asian games success and the physical education workers of Asia to unite and strive for peace in Asia and all the world." They gave each team a blue flower vase, a set of Communist magazines called People's Pictorial, pictures of Mao Tse-tung, and on the closing night they gave a huge party. The Japanese...
Boston newspapers like eight-column banner headlines and frequent extras, with the result that they, perhaps more than newspapers in other cities, have to concentrate on crime to produce the headlines. Some of the best reporters in Boston are on the police beat. Starting last Wednesday those reporters (and the CRIMSON) got a fine two-day work-out when Sergeant Furness A. Brown of the Los Angeles Police Department checked in at the Hotel Statler...
...Princeton students took up the banner of "moral sensibility" to wage war on the current "Lonesome Gal" radio programs, and the young lady who calls her listeners "lover-boy" to sell tobacco...