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Bevin Up. The Chamberlain exit put into the all-powerful War Cabinet a patient, stubborn slab of a man named Ernest ("Give 'Itler 'Ell") Bevin. As the National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs...
...Ernest Bevin, the horny-handed General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The British public, sick of the leadership that had produced Munich and bumbled through eight months of war, took these men to its heart, became so wildly enthusiastic over the "give 'itler 'ell" speeches of Ernest Bevin that he is considered the best bet to be next Prime Minister. Whether he is or whether he is not, Britain is through with rule by its traditional ruling class...
...will probably be the only entrant in the shot put. Yale will be insufferably weak in the broad jump with Read Murphy as its only prospect. Manager Mel Chapin will pair with Woody Rich in the high jump and they promise to be the real dark horses on the Ell squad. If Rich's ankle regains its former strength he may pull a real surprise...
...their tiny pieces of private property, and now this small fraction of Russia's agricultural land supports 13% more cows and pigs than on the collective farms. This scandalous situation became increasingly more scandalous: peasants tried to stretch their legal inch of private property into an illegal ell. Some local throwbacks actually hired comrades to work their required stint on the collective fields while they devoted all their time to their own acres...
...Ell team is heavily studded with Sophomore and Junior performers, as are the Crimson. Chuck Spalding, Rolfe Kingsley, Bill Thorn, Mac Stephens, Captain Gordon Campbell, Bob Freedman, Tom Rutledge, and George Kelly are the outstanding Blue singles men. It is a well-balanced outfit, but lacks some of the individual brilliance of the Crimson...