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...skill known to sport-discus, javelin-throw, shotput, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, high hurdles and flat races of 100, 400, and 1,500 meters. He didn't let it ruffle him. When he was not actually competing, rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) Bob relaxed on a blanket, now and then waved to his mother up in the stands. At the end of the first night's competition, Mathias was trailing Irving ("Moon") Mondschein...
...sources, agree neither with the temper of the thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket implications which Mr. Blanshard draws are politically naive. The social facts in Spain and the United States are only slightly comparable. His simple use of the Papist bug-a-boo as the enduring prime mover of unsavory isms is just too easy...
...strategy that it is ridiculous to suggest, as some have, that criticisms of that strategy ought to be banned as "trouble-making" or "intolerant." An attempt to control the lives and thoughts of every one of us ought not to be permitted to escape criticism by hiding under the blanket of tolerance. For "American Democracy and Catholic Power" is not Ku Klux Klan rabble-rousing, but a picture carefully documented largely from official Roman Catholic sources, of what the Roman Catholic Church is now doing in America and what it would like to do in the future. Sedgwick W. Green...
Lilienthal could not resist one more barb. He noted with satisfaction that Hickenlooper did not suspect all those who had received emergency clearances. "Since this list included General Eisenhower," Lilienthal remarked acidly, "he will be glad it is not a blanket list...
Pack Rat. In Hagerstown, Md., a few hours after Chester Delauney had been released from Washington County Jail, he was rearrested and charged with stealing a blanket, a mattress cover, 15 cakes of soap and two brushes from his cell...