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...wide black bands over one hip. These pigtailed little toddlers do not always heighten one's relish for the finished tea, as the big piles of leaves ready for sorting and perfuming are oftentimes their playgrounds, and through and over them they tumble and waddle with infantile disregard for consequences...
Tennessee's aged (81) Kenneth McKellar, who sometimes appears to be dozing at his front-row desk, snapped up like an aroused tomcat. Did the Senate mean to disregard the experience of his committee, which had approved all of these fine projects? By a vote of 47 to 28, the Senators said certainly not. Big Paul Douglas had lost again...
...over. Items: ¶ In Detroit, the common council forbade sidewalk news vendors to sell "subversive literature," gave the commissioner of police the job of determining what was subversive. The Detroit Newspaper Guild protested that they disliked Commie publications ("They are dismal examples of journalism. They have shown a constant disregard for the truth.") but didn't believe in suppressing them. The council decided to think it over for a week. ¶ In Birmingham, Ala., big, blustery Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had been arresting Communists on charges of vagrancy, thought there ought to be a more specific charge...
...World War II (during which his hair turned practically white). His 44th Infantry Division drove through Germany into Austria, helped force the surrender of the Nineteenth German army, took 30,000 prisoners. General Dean was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action . . . outstanding leadership and utter disregard for personal safety." Said General Douglas MacArthur last week: "It is still hoped that this gallant officer, if alive, has not fallen into enemy hands...
...small balance of 39 is doing the university a great disservice. They should not be retained." At one point, a professor from the faculty committee broke in. Said he: "Rather than having caught Communists, you have caught the free and independent spirits of the university, and if you disregard our report, you will crush great spirits and destroy great scholars...