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Buncombe Bob. With the primary only a fortnight away, Frank Graham still seemed to be the man to beat. He had little to worry about from one opponent, demagogic Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 65, who was hitting the comeback trail with his same old isolationist line: "I say stop immigration now and lock the gates securely, because I know we have not a friend on earth." But Reynolds seemed to have lost his punch...
...rugby team will take its four-game winning streak to Princeton tomorrow, where the Tiger fifteen will try to make up for the 6 to 3 beating it suffered on Soldiers Field a fortnight ago. There will be two games; the first fifteen plays at 1:30 p.m. and the second fifteen immediately afterwards...
...past fortnight, Russian radio listeners have been getting the Marxist lowdown on U.S. radio and TV. In a series grimly entitled "The Mouthpiece of American Reaction," Soviet Announcer Lapin has been saying that "radio, which is the great discovery of a Russian genius, the mighty weapon of culture and progress, has been transformed in imperialist America into a hotbed of vulgarity and ignorance, into a tool of profitmaking, slander and deceit . . . It is poisoning the politically backward and uncultured people with the virus of chauvinism and militarism...
...winning Florida's Flamingo Stakes in March, Mr. Trouble was leading a more leisurely life in South Carolina. Mr. Trouble, a 40-1 shot in the winter books, made his three-year-old debut in mid-April, ran a strong fourth in a six-furlong race. A fortnight ago (TIME, May 1), he ran second to the current Derby favorite, Your Host, in a race in which the California-bred winner set a new track record for seven furlongs. Last week Trainer Veitch gave Mr. Trouble his final tune-up in competition, sent him out in the mile...
...Senator's bidding, his morals investigator, Judge Stephen S. Jackson, ended a trying fortnight in Hollywood, lost no time in getting back among friends. But, like any longtime movie fan, Big Ed could appreciate the thrilling suspense of a cliffhanger. At week's end, he let it be known that he had faith in the sincerity of the cinemoguls' intentions, but he was "so darned proud" of a couple of new movie-morality bills he was drafting that he might introduce them soon, anyway...