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...Fred Keller, a former choir boy, elevator boy, newspaper reporter and amateur boxer, who is a political commissar of the Abies & Georgies, had the most hair-raising tale to tell. Placed by his Rightist captors under guard in a house, chunky, muscular Commissar Keller overpowered and killed his guard, crept away into the night, had wandered about for four days behind Rightist lines, swum the Ebro River three times with a bullet in his hip before he was able to slip through to the Leftists...
...securing great names, the Overseers have turned to the lions of New York, who, despite their thorough knowledge of their fields, have neither the time nor the inclination to come to Cambridge and see how these subjects are taught to Harvard undergraduates. Too often another motive appears to have crept in, and men of fame as well as fortune have been appointed with the hope that they might feel like paying for the honor accorded them. This confusion of the ends with the means has led to the virtual death of the Visiting Committee as a factor in molding Harvard...
...report in this paper last week on the death of Gil Jones was hurriedly written and some errors crept into it which the Mercury cheerfully corrects...
Grapevine sources meanwhile warned some hundreds of thousands of the 66,000,000 German people that something perhaps as bad as the Blood Purge might be coming, and these people were nearly frantic with anxiety as the hours crept on. Finally at 10 p. m. the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment broadcast on a nation-wide hookup for all Germans to "stand by." They stood by for two agonizing hours until the crashing announcement came...
...Over a coast-to-coast network James Roosevelt debated the Administration's Executive Reorganization Plan with Indiana's Congressman Samuel Pettengill, defending his father against charges of "dictatorship." Said Son James: "The history of dictatorships in the modern world shows that they have not crept up inside the governments of democracies through the gradual increase of the powers of the executive branch...