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...scene was Warsaw's renovated, horseshoe-shaped Parliament Hall. One by ore, the members walked to a wicker basket in front of the speaker's dais to vote in Poland's first postwar presidential election. Everyone knew that the winner would be Boleslaw Bierut, who for 24 months had been the Communist-stooge Provisional President...
Midway in the voting, rolypoly Speaker Wladislaw Kowalski rang for order. Gravely he announced: "Some of you have been putting ballots into the basket openly. This is a secret vote. You must fold your ballots, so your choice cannot be seen...
Stubborn, glum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the Polish Peasant Party's leader, tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them...
...Freshman basketeers edged out a scrappy Andover five 49 to 42 at Andover Saturday, in a day dominated by Yardling losses. Sloppy long shooting by the quintet in the first half left the game at a 19 to 19 deadlock at the mid-point, but a fast-breaking last half offensive, sparked by Captain John Rockwell's basket-filling, put the Crimson...
...teams unable to make their shots count. Free throws and field goal tries rolled off both rims time after time, and at the end of the second quarter the Jayvees led by a narrow 18 to 15 margin. In the last two periods, however, Kopp's men found the basket, and their barrage left the Hub college quintet far behind...