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...second game was over in the first inning when the Yankees' star righthander, Bob Turley, winner of 21 games during the regular season, got gunned out in a seven-run Milwaukee assault. Bauer misplayed a fly ball for a double. Yankee Killer Lew Burdette added insult to injury with a three-run homer, breezed to a 13-5 victory for a record four straight series triumphs over the New Yorkers...
...traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when it comes out that the boy's father wants no truck with the peat-bog Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult with a challenge, only to stumble blankly home, all the posturing and pride crushed out of him, to kill that last emblem of his dream, his blooded mare. As confirmed a dream addict as any tosspot or down-and-outer in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
Berrrand Russell was fit to be tied. "British authorities," he wrote to the Times of London, had committed a "gross discourtesy" by "subjecting a man of great intellectual eminence to insult at the hands of ignorant officials." The man: U.S. Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, a colleague of Philosopher Russell in opposition to nuclear bomb tests. The Home Office-which considers that visitor non grata who takes part in meetings against government policy-had refused Pauling permission to stay in England < past Sept. 16, precluding his appearance before a meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. What's more...
...Insult." Though the government kept the attack out of the press, the story soon spread. Last week in a letter that was read from every pulpit in his city, the Bishop of Czestochowa denounced the government's action as "an insult to our national sanctuary." That evening 20,000 Catholics gathered for a special Mass, heard Cardinal Wyszynski himself deliver the apostolic blessing. Later the cardinal issued a pastoral letter charging that the police had arrested at least one monk and several priests and pilgrims...
...Imperial, completed in 1922, had withstood the great 1923 Kwanto earthquake, while much of Tokyo fell to rubble. World War II's firebombings did not destroy it. But now, according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there was no imagining "a more outrageous insult to the feeling and character of the original building-and to Japan." In Tokyo, Annex Architect Teitaro Takahashi, 66, had a stylus ready when the Wright balloon came along. Said Takahashi: "Wright's building is not at all Japanese, as he claims, and many of its facilities...