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...shoot up" a union organizer, returned to tell the Committee that a Harlan deputy and three other men had followed him to a Capitol washroom and pushed him around, that he had later been warned by telephone to get out of Washington or be "buried in Arlington." Hapless...
...there were several false alarms about Japanese torpedo boats. In the North Sea some British fishing smacks were mistaken in the darkness for enemy destroyers. In a wild outburst of Russian firing the cruiser Aurora was hit (luckily by duds) and several of the fishing boats sunk with their hapless crews. In the excitement no one stopped to pick up survivors. That hysterical episode quickly became a diplomatic incident of grave importance; only after thoroughgoing apologies and explanations was the Baltic Fleet allowed to proceed...
...portrayal of Franz Shubert's hopeless passion for a beautiful young daughter of an Austrian jeweler. Shubert, a shy and awkward lover, finds a vent for his love in his songs to the fair Mitzi, but their new-found romance is nipped in the bud by a hapless misunderstanding. Mitzi then showers all of her warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without a doubt to Mitzi's father, old man Krantz, who makes...
...time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an expression of a democracy's gratitude for the failure; or whether the British people are trying to make up for the disappointment by a second-best array of fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration...
...cited for contempt of the House. After the House had convened next day, however, it was announced that action had been postponed. Torn between the alternatives of asking the House to make a martyr of Dr. Townsend or of letting Dr. Townsend make a fool of Congress, the hapless committeemen floundered through two more executive sessions, decided nothing...