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...junior filing through the registration gauntlet at Longfellow Hall at noon yesterday was undoubtedly more laden than the present greenest Yardling who grabs every bit of paper that Memorial Hall tables disgorge. Mrs. Doris Moths, 22 year-old member of the class of '49, had a 13 month-old baby to maneuver through enrollment blanks. Her husband, Armin Moths, Sr. '47 couldn't stay home to mind Armin, Jr., which accounted for the latter's presence on the registration line...
...come dressed in white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin "operating table," prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked him vigorously. Then he was shoved down a greased slide, belabored through another gauntlet, and pronounced...
...radio, Hocking thought, was hardly a free and open encounter; "public debate" had become a euphemism. He doubted that many readers tried or even wanted to hear all sides of an issue. He asked: "How many editors . . . cite each other to open debate; what Hearst has flung down the gauntlet to what New York Times-or vice versa? . . . I fear it is simply not the case that in the profuse and unordered public expression of today the best views tend to prevail...
...Promised Land, Tap Roots, The Gauntlet...
...that no more than 825,000 homes will be begun this year, and if existing federal controls and aids are removed only 750,000 will be built. Passed by the Senate last year but pigeonholed in the House, the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill is once more running the gauntlet of Congressional consideration, this time with the same House members that led its defeat last year now completely running the show at their end of the Capitol...