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...over into a bland and amusing parody of them. The story concerns an extraordinary occurrence in the town of Castel Rodriguez: a girl named Catalina Perez, comely, virtuous and 16 years old, who has been trampled by a bull and crippled so that she can walk only with a crutch, reports that the Virgin Mary appeared to her and told her that to be healed she must go to "the son of Juan Suarez de Valero who has best served...
...Cotton Crutch. Cotton prices, which had been slipping at the prospect of the biggest crop (15,219,000 bales) since 1937, got a prop from the Department of Agriculture. The department agreed to make loans on cotton stored on farms (formerly it made them only on cotton stored in approved warehouses), thus made it possible for farmers to keep their cotton off the market and keep prices...
...News will prosper only when the business staff is faced with the necessity of bringing in more revenue on its own initiative. It will improve only when the editorial staff realizes that only a live, vigorous paper will attract subscribers. The artificial crutch of compulsory subscriptions accomplishes neither of these objectives. Other newspapers in the Big Seven group of Colleges get along by themselves. Smith and Vassar each have two unsubsidized newspapers. Radcliffe can surely...
Rated by the crutch of comparative scores, Yale should squeeze a close match from the Crimson, for the Blue has beaten Army and tied Princeton, the only two squads that have pinned Harvard this year. Fortunately, comparative scores in wrestling are about as unreliable as in other sports...
When a heckler interrupted Scully on a point of order, Scully snarled: "Sit down, you mug!" The heckler kept clamoring. Scully calmly eased himself to within a few feet of him, hoisted up his right crutch and whacked him on the shoulder. That about ended the meeting. The committeemen agreed that they would support the regular Democratic nominees after the state's primary on June 1. But until then, Wallace supporters were free to wreak whatever havoc they could...