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...line fight against the bill, was disappointed. But he could hardly have been surprised: the public works appropriation was tied to aid for economically depressed areas; as such, it affected the home districts of a vast majority of Representatives. And since when have politicians started voting against the pork barrel...
...district attorney had framed a question to deceive the jury, the committee says the jury "must have understood the plain English words." This is discernibly false. Not only did the judge instruct the jury that Proctor's testimony meant that "the fatal Winchester bullet . . . was fired through the barrel of the Colt Automatic pistol found upon the defendant Sacco at the time of his arrest." The newspapers of the day also failed to understand "the plain English words." "EXPERTS PICK MURDER PISTOL; Declare Bullet from Sacco's Gun Caused Death of Berardelli," read the headlines of the Boston Herald...
...make the trip, the Rugby Club has had to scrape the bottom of their hopelessly bare financial barrel. Receiving no aid from the University besides clean towels and underwear, the ruggers are paying two-thirds of their expenses out of their own pockets, and are relying for the final third on rather scanty contributions from various and previously uncontacted alumni...
...back is curved as a barrel stave, and his chin kisses his chest. He looks like Satan grown chubby, but his deepest pleasure is the most innocent in Christendom-playing the harpsichord. His sweet music is brilliant and astonishingly rich, but at the end of a concert he can melt with a mundane gesture the mystic spell he has taken an evening to build. "I'm Fernando Valenti," he will say, extending a moist, pudgy hand. "Thank you very much for listening...
Died. Eppa Rixey Jr., 71, self-effacing 266-game winner during 21 years of major-league pitching with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, whose last-month nomination to the Hall of Fame moved him to remark: "I guess they're scraping at the bottom of the barrel"; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...