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...Yale patriarch himself. Sumner left Keller 52 huge drawers and boxes crammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Sumner had his own filing system, using red cards for references to be consulted immediately, green for his own comments. All bore his unique abbreviations, a swastika for "superstition," two dice for "luck...
Vigorous, young (45), excellent golfer (70s) and able dice shaker, Knight has worked as heir or owner in nearly every part of the Beacon-Journal plant. Since he dislikes chain journalism's uniformity, Publisher Knight tries to give each of his papers a personality of its own, favors much local news. His Miami paper is Democratic, his Akron paper Independent. During Akron's big strike in 1936, he splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled...
...dice cup which gives a signal when the dice have been shaken enough...
...Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that no one is particularly surprised at advertisements in the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury setting...
...almost every point the Student Union has failed to keep the objective fairness that a poll demands. Except for the first two questions and parts of the fourth--which are clear enough to allow straight "yes" or "no"--the University may rightfully consider that the rest of the dice have been loaded...