Word: blues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand to hear the Caudillo was a fine array of foreign diplomats, but conspicuously absent were the charges d'affaires of France, Britain...
...biggest efforts in staunchly Catholic Transdanubia where prayers are still openly said for the health of jailed Cardinal Mindszenty. Paunchy (280 Ibs.) Father Istvan Balogh, suspended by his church and long in favor of collaboration with the government (TIME, Feb. 14), raced over back-country roads in his light blue Studebaker, campaigning among the peasants, who dread the Communists' plans for collectivization...
...town of Celldb'molk, the Reds organized a huge picnic rally. One morning 55 flower-decked trains brought 150,000 peasants. Special Organization Guards (in blue shirts and red ties) led them into the park, kept the applause going 15 minutes after Boss Rakosi himself arrived. A peasant woman kissed him on the cheek, presented him with a white lamb. Said she: "Anybody who is not going to vote for the People's Front has no more brains than this little lamb...
Like Harvard, Yale lost heavily to graduation last June, but, unlike Harvard, the Blue has been augmented with men from a fine 1948 freshman team. However, Yale still boasts one nationally known performer--Rola...
Donclan limited the Blue to one hit in each of the first six innings and two each in the last three, for a total of twelve. He walked but two and fanned seven. Three Yardling errors were costly, but the visitors made two themselves as each side scored only two earned runs...