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Ohio's solid, slow-moving Representative Clarence Brown did what some of his colleagues had been itching to do: he marched the Democrats' brash young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. off to the woodshed. What got Brown's Republican dander up was Junior's charge that Brown had reneged on a pledge to support the controversial FEPC bill (TIME, Feb. 6). There had been no such pledge, said Brown, as Mr. Roosevelt might have known if he spent more time on the job and less time gallivanting around Manhattan...
...only time he got his dander up at all in public during the week was over, of all things, traffic laws. Before the President's Conference on Highway Safety, Truman condemned lax state drivers' examination laws, including those of his own Missouri. "Terrible!" cried the President. "Why a man can go down to a drugstore [in Missouri] from an insane asylum and spend a quarter and get a license to drive anywhere in the state...
Letters & Goal Posts. When Yale forged ahead in the second quarter, 7-6, Harvard's mannerly rooters sat subdued until the final period. Then their team, which had been either very good or very bad all season, got its dander up. Two Harvard touchdowns made the score 20-7. Just before the gun, a wave of substitutes ran in (a Harvard man does not get his letter unless he plays against Yale-and one play is enough). As the tide turned toward Harvard, some of the students went native, shot up crimson flares that looped across to the Yale...
...toothpick legs. In the jockeys' room, where he is cock of the walk, he is by turns charming and churlish, chatty and mum (he likes to read between races ? usually bestselling novels). Sometimes, when another rider has done something in a race he doesn't like, his dander rises and he tosses equipment around the room. He can swear as proficiently as any jockey, but when the occasion calls he can speak perfect parlor English...
What got Communist Davis' dander up was the arrest in Harlem one night last week of Claudia Jones, 32, nee Claudia Vera Cumberbatch, known also as Mrs. Scholnick (for her ex-husband). Miss Jones, a Negro, is secretary of the National Women's Commission of the Communist Party, a member of its national committee, long active in the late Young Communist League and a frequent contributor to the columns of the Daily Worker...