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...pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...
...Town at which hundreds of homeless or once-delinquent lads have been educated. He asked for custody of Richard until the boy is 18. Richard, delighted at the chance to ride horses, agreed as soon as it was understood that he wanted to take his rubber hammer and rubber hatchet along...
Next day, Collins himself was a little sheepish about his remarks. Senator Harry Cain of Washington confronted him: "I think you unintentionally, and I emphasize that word, unintentionally, did a first-rate hatchet job on General MacArthur, and certainly you led the nation to believe that General MacArthur violated a field directive." By then, Joe Collins had already retreated to a safer position. It was not a "directive" that MacArthur had violated, but a "policy clearly enunciated ... I did not state it was a disobedience or an insubordination...
...affable male. He can afford to play it as long as he has Eva, who is equally at home in the role of the vengeful, bossy female. She draws the fire of cartoonists in neighboring countries (see cut). It is Evita, not her Juancito, who performs most of the hatchet work in Argentine officialdom. Evita, not Juan, slings great, vulgar sums of money around. Some people in -Argentina may be able to look upon Perón with a certain amount of detachment; nobody can be neutral about Evita...
...small foundry owner, Giacomo Fabbri, in Ferrara. While they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly sent small boys scurrying through Ferrara to round up the party's toughs...