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Testifying at the Lilienthal hearings a fortnight ago, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the thoroughly accurate judgment that "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." His frankness cocked a few U.S. ears; it set the Kremlin a-growl. Barked Comrade Molotov: "Inadmissible behavior. . . gross slander and hostile to the Soviet Union...
Tommy Drohan and Bob Aaron, in that order, split the honors for the Crimson in the Dive. At this point the Lion raised a little growl as Columbia's St. John with his teammate Fred Dupuy adding a point, won the 100 free. Then a Columbia' grand slam by Ed Lemaniki and Henry Avwater followed in the backstroke...
...from oil heiresses and South American embassies. As Senator Tiglon of New York he would also be invited to the White House, thus posing difficult, but not necessarily insuperable problems of security. And if he refrained from eating butlers (except at crowded cocktail parties), observed protocol and learned to growl softly at older women, Senator Tiglon might even-despite his mixed parentage -become a social lion...
...said Lewis. Barber Martin, who liked to tell people during the coal strike that if he ever got hold of Lewis he would take the famed eyebrows right off, got out his razor. Then a photographer entered, set off a flashbulb. Lewis bounded out of the chair with a growl, grabbed the photographer's film-holder, smashed it, drove him away, sat down again. Barber Martin gave him a shave and a facial massage...
...Allied occupation had the British been so popular with Italians. The Cabinet of aging Premier Ivanoe Bonomi issued a declaration of "deep satisfaction" that the New Zealanders were in Trieste, added a "special salute to the incontestably Italian city." From Marshal Tito's headquarters came a low answering growl: "Trieste and Gorizia . . . were, after bloody struggles, liberated by Yugoslav Army forces. . . . Certain Allied forces have, without our permission, entered [these] towns, which might have undesirable consequences unless the matter is promptly settled by mutual agreement." Cried the Yugoslav Communist paper, Naprijed, "Istria and Trieste are ours and they will...