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...MichiganState College was having its troubles with members of its football squad. Within a few months, Star End Bill Quinlan has been dropped from the squad after being involved in a brawl outside a sorority house, Fullback Vic Postula got into a fist fight, ended up by knocking some of his opponent's teeth out, and Halfback Gene Lekenta is facing trial for assault on another student...
Wallowing in the imported delights of full democracy, the lower house of the Japanese Diet last week staged the roughest and most disgraceful brawl in the two years since Japan regained her sovereignty. For the first time in the Diet's 64-year history, Tokyo's metropolitan police were called to restore order. In the eye of the storm, yet seemingly untouched by it, was astute, crusty and supremely confident Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 75, whose friends and admirers call him the ablest and most important figure in today's Japan, and whose foes call...
...Montgomery, Ala., asked in court why he had slugged a woman during a tavern brawl. Rube Wainwright explained: "I thought she was my wife...
None of Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville's first eight wives ever succeeded in smoking him out into court to fight a divorce brawl. Playboy Manville, 60, in escaping his previous marriages, barely dented his $20 million mad money. But shrewd Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, No. 9, enticed Tommy into a Manhattan court last week. Anita, 31, wanted a fatter payoff in her separation agreement: $1,250 a week instead of the piddling $1,000 a month she gets. When their honeymoon was only two days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives...
Army Secretary Stevens-whose testimony had been briefly interrupted by Smith's-returned to the witness table. As he read his prepared statement, he nervously licked his lips and forced his smile; his was the bemusement of a gentleman caught in a wharf brawl. Yet he was the man on whom the Army's case largely depended, and it was behind him that the Army's top echelons had rallied...