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Like many another schoolboy outcast, flop-footed, inky-fingered "Bop" La Farge plugged his dogged way out of pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star high-jumper despite heckling classmates who chanted "Bop-Bop-Bop" at the side of the jumping pit. By graduation he had attained respectability with the kudos of a letterman in both football and crew...
What made the board flip-flop was Detroit's pugnacious young Foremen's Association of America, an independent union. To enforce its bargaining demands, it had called a series of strikes in Detroit's war plants (TIME, May 15-22), hog-tied war production. By giving in, NLRB hopefully expects to avoid further "industrial strife." But the dissenting board member, Gerard D. Reilly, snapped that the ruling smacks of a "peace-at-any-price" policy...
Last week Captain Earl J. Wilson, U.S.M.C. Aviation Correspondent, reported that this particular Jap effort at propaganda-with-music had been a spectacular flop. For one thing, Filipinos have grown used to the buoyant lyrics and 4/4 rhythms of Tin Pan Alley...
...Army was about ready to give in and acknowledge one of the big bonehead plays of World War II. There was no longer any blinking the fact; the Canol oil project in the northern wastes of Canada was a resounding flop...
...moral judgment. (Al Capone was runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928.) The two criteria are always these: who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did the most to change the news for better (like Stalin in 1942) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...