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...handed to his plans in the past week when big Ed Weaver, one of the two ends who are the only lettermen left from last year's squad, was declared temporarily ineligible for today's game, ostensibly for failing an exam. Also injuries have been added to the basic insult over the past few weeks, and top backs Tom Bell, Freddle Meyers, John Wing, and Pote Manus were unable to appear last Saturday against Dartmouth. All of them, however, may be back in action today...
...Reds staged anti-Pollio demonstrations, plastered Kaifeng with posters-one of them proclaimed that "Pollio is the son of a dog and a horse," which, in China, combines the insult of animal ancestry with the insult of miscegenation. Last spring, Bishop Pollio asked some Red hoodlums outside his church to take their noise elsewhere. The Reds cried that he was "interfering with the liberties of the people," and he was jailed...
Criticism or Insult? Is it insulting for a critic to write that a Rigoletto chorus sounded like "a bunch of miniature pinschers"? Indeed it is, cried 48 members of Austria's Graz Opera chorus, and they sued Critic Richard Ahne of the Graz Steirerblatt for likening them to yelping dogs...
Critic Ahne won a dismissal of the suit when he found a zoologist to testify that the pinscher is a noble dog, and that the simile was therefore no insult. But the chorus appealed to a higher court, and the judge ruled against Critic Ahne: "There is a border beyond the bounds of good taste that deserves punishment. It is true that pinschers are a noble race of dogs, but Herr Ahne wanted, by his comparison, to humiliate the chorus." Sentence : 500 schillings fine or a week in jail...
...pills. But despite the undaunted doctor, the delegates could not help feeling a little querulous. Detroit's Mayor Albert E. Cobo had pleaded that he was too busy to welcome them. By solemn resolution, the delegates found the excuse flimsy and the mayor's conduct "an outrageous insult." Politicians didn't do that sort of thing in the old days...