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...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...from the briefest of short stories, Fry had made a very long one-act play. The wit and poetry that glow brightly in his The Lady's Not For Burning (TIME, April 24) merely glint and flicker in Phoenix. But on Broadway Phoenix was as much victim as culprit: it was badly produced, and had to share the billing with something very bad indeed...
These people can be stopped simply by putting pictures of participants on participation tickets. There would be nothing more uncomfortable than facing a ferocious name-taker who was looking malevolently from the picture on the card to the culprit's face. Revenues would be bolstered, the H.A.A. deficit would be out, and there would be a chance of playing some windless tennis...
Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 gave the culprit a one-year suspended sentence and put him on probation on the condition that he help recover other books he was accused of taking. As yet, Perry has only returned the cover of the book, Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of Libraries, said last night...
Furthermore, said the President, McCarthy was not the only culprit. He accused the whole Republican policy committee of seizing on the investigations as a means of destroying bipartisan foreign policy. Still swinging wildly, he compared such an act during a cold war to shooting U.S. soldiers in the back during a hot war. The chief offenders, besides McCarthy, said Harry Truman, were New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Republican floor leader...