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...after the foal arrived, lop-eared Leonardo Cedano, 30, a Calero stablehand, became morose. Standing outside a public bar, he bellowed: "People are saying that the baby mule born yesterday is my son." Then he popped a skyrocket into his mouth, touched a lighted cigaret to the fuse. A moment later it exploded. His face and mouth were horribly mutilated. Within half an hour he died...
...bank examiner discovers that the secret of Lee's success is heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena...
When looking for cause for growing disunity, note is taken of the increased size of Harvard in the last two decades and of the growing diversity of its students' backgrounds which can scarcely fuse adequately in four years. But as the real villain, emerges the House Plan...
Making its way around U. S. campuses like the spark in a sputtering fuse, the venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts...
...ready to burst your lungs rooting for Harvard." Dimly he remembered hearing his mother say that Uncle Henry graduated from Harvard in 1897; he also thought that something similar had once been said about Cousin Arthur. So the explosion from Cousin Arthur left him gasping. "Hmph!" he lit the fuse. "For a Yale man to root for Harvard would be a worse crime than for Mr. Roosevelt to turn Republican...