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...most countries extremist parties, left or right, usually show their greatest gains when times are hard. In evenminded Belgium, however, this trend is often reversed. Last week, a time of international if not national stress, the Belgian electorate voted overwhelmingly for the moderate parties in the municipal elections held every six years. Heaviest winners were the Socialist and Catholic Parties, supporters of Premier Paul Henri Spaak. Even the pro-French Liberal Party, thought to be losing its hold, showed wide gains. Heaviest losers were the Communists, Rexists and Flemish Nationalists. The pro-Fascist Rexists blamed their losses on the fact...
...Department of Justice indictment for monopolistic practices, ostensible purpose of the meeting was to discuss ways and means of meeting this and other major crises, such as restrictions on cinema distribution in Italy and Germany, labor troubles on the West Coast, conduct of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year campaign. Actually, word leaked from Hollywood that the real purpose of the meeting was something else entirely: to consider ways and means of checking anti-Semitism in so far as it affects movie revenues...
...Greatest Exhibition of Grit...
...know," Thorp said, "that the greatest exhibition of grit I ever saw on a football field concerns a man you know. It was in 1910, and Penn State beat Pittsburgh 3-0. State had a tackle, one of the best there ever was, and he had water on the knee, had to be carried to the field. They put ice and stuff on his knee. The other team were confident that he couldn't play more than a few minutes. Well, he played an all-American game for 60 minutes. Name was Dick Harlow...
Thorp has been refereeing or umpiring for more than thirty years, but his proudest record is that of having umpired 12 Harvard-Yale games in a row. Practically all his superlatives are connected with this ivy tradition. He ranks halfback Eddle Mahan as his greatest of greats but his real favorite, the "most gentlemanly" and "nicest fellow ever," is none other than quarterback Barry Wood...