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...Blowtorch Egan calls on Harvard to come out from behind false whiskers by either "abolishing intercollegiate football, as the Intellectually honest Dr. Robert M. Hutchins did at the University of Chicago or subsidize football players." He continues with an elaborate explanation of how Bill Bingham is the boss of every Dean of admissions in the Ivy League, a fotball Czar comparable to Judge Landis in baseball. Egan winds up his little dissertation by tacking that same confusing monicker on Boston College. It is an "Intellectually honest institution", says Egan, comparing it with Dr. Hutchins and Chicago. That simile...
Last spring under the spur of the two blowtorch lynchings at Duck Hill, Miss. (TIME, April 26), the Gavagan Bill, a similar anti-lynching measure, passed the House. Passage by the Senate therefore meant that the bill would become law barring the unlikely event of a Presidential veto. So as predicted, Texas' Tom Connally promptly organized a filibuster. Not as predicted, that filibuster last week rounded out ten days and had gathered so much momentum that Tom Connally jubilantly announced he would keep it going if necessary until Christmas...
...Adolf Hitler was attacking last week. The doughty Führer and his trained press squared off at the U. S. also. Though Nazi propagandists have been remiss in neglecting the satiric possibilities of Father Divine (see p. 61), they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures of U. S. female wrestlers, headlined it: AMERICAN LADIES...
...explosives company walked a few paces, wheeled, aimed, fired. The bullet zipped into a two-foot cylinder of whitish stuff resembling caked salt. Nothing happened. A 50-lb. trip-hammer crashed down on another cylinder. Nothing happened. A man attacked another piece of the substance with a blowtorch. It simply sizzled. Red-hot irons bored holes in other pieces and still nothing happened. Other lumps were dropped into furnaces. They disintegrated harmlessly. Testers tried in vain to make the stuff explode with blasting caps. But when a stick of it was detonated with a dynamite cartridge, it exploded with satisfactory...
...Peekskill, N. Y., planning to paint his house, William P. Nabal borrowed a blowtorch to remove old paint. Absorbed in the operation of the blowtorch, William P. Nabal burnt off paint, clapboards, wall, house and all, returned the borrowed blowtorch...