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...such statute. Judge Sylvester Ryan warned attractive, hard-working Columnist Torre, 33, that she was risking a sentence of 30 days for contempt if she persisted. Sympathetically, the judge called her "the Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding the tocsin of the freedom, of the press and invoking the shade of Woodrow Wilson. The Trib's young (32) Editor-Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid vowed that the paper would carry...
Working from a mound that is only 46 ft. from the plate, softball pitchers boast much the same repertory as their big-league counterparts. Even though they are limited to an underhand delivery, their curves and fastballs blaze in so fast that the best batters have no time to swing from their heels. And there is always the change-up to help give the pitcher the upper hand. Most important of all, the underhanded softball delivery permits a wicked pitch that no hardball batter ever has to face: the rise ball. Sailing up from a few inches off the dirt...
...exchanging furious broadsides and grapeshot at point-blank range, with boarding parties hanging massed along the bulwark netting. The rigging of the French ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased to exist, annihilated by "tactical superiority, mobility, rate of fire and dash...
...relief." Henry Ford II: "The rapid increases in wages of automobile workers over the past ten years, which were negotiated under the duress of your demands, have unquestionably contributed to inflation. Thus, having poured gasoline on the fires . . . you now stand by and tell us how to fight the blaze. In return, you say you will consider using less gasoline next time-or maybe only kerosene...
...living Catholic novelist, can say more in 150 pages than can most writers in twice that number. Mauriac seems to hold that the sins of a Robert Lagave are venial because he is the sort of mindless pagan who could scarcely recognize God if he met Him in a blaze of light on the road to Damascus. The real sinners are those who know God but love only themselves or their illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps and then marries a neighboring landowner; Pierre sighs and goes...