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...life of a militant Communist leader-in & out of jail, in & out of Russia. He developed into one of the party's most effective orators. Most of all, from his childhood on, Thorez read everything he could lay his hamlike hands on. Today he can gallop through a technical book, or one on philosophy or art, and then give without a stumble a half-hour precis of its contents. In lectures and debates at the Sorbonne, in meetings of legal and philosophical societies, he shines-a grinning, grown-up Quiz-kid with a cowlick over his forehead...
Every Friday in Lent a mule without a head, mula sem cabeça, flies around Brazilian back-country towns, terrifying the peasants. With every movement of the trees, with every blowing paper, people stand still, sure they have seen the mula. At night they hear it bray and gallop over the roofs. Until recently, the phantom mule was the only extraterrestrial thrill most Brazilians ever...
...England. A wonderful epitomizing shot-three French noblemen drinking a battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release-an arc of hundreds of arrows speeding with the twang of a gigantic guitar on their victorious way-is one of the most gratifying payoffs of suspense yet contrived...
Bill Kelleher's Gold Coasters opened the intramural season Tuesday by edging Winthrop, 7 to 0 on Harry Booth's 60-yard gallop that accounted for the only score. On Wednesday, a hard-hitting Kirkland outfit had not trouble in outscoring Tom Murphy's Lowell aggregation, 25 to 6. The Bellboys averted a shutout when Joe Cannon snatched a Kirkland pass and went all the way as time was running out in the last period...
While it is all right for them to gallop through the countryside trying to drum up future business by interesting Sunday-school kids in war, I do think they have a lot of brass to insist that every man, whether he is built that way or not, be forced to spend a year of his life learning their trade...