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...evidence, we need only point to the cities like Boston, where there are many Catholic voters present, voters particularly sensitive to this issue. Boston, while supporting local aspirants Dever and Kennedy handsomely, helped sound the death-knell of Stevenson's candidacy. In Chicago, too, the local Democratic office-seeker, Dixon, fared better than his one-time boss. Moreover, reversing this analysis, a metropolis like Philadelphia, whose Catholic population looms less weighty in the vote tallies, and Pittsburgh like it delivered up their overwhelming Democratic majorities as usual. Clearly, it was the Reds-in-Government issue that caused this...
Outside, a man with a crepe-draped Argentine flag perched himself in the fork of a tree and announced dramatically that he would stay there forever. (Rain soon forced him down.) Churches throughout Argentina tolled a slow, mournful death-knell. A month of crises in Eva Perón's illness had put the nation on notice that she would die; by sunrise the citizens had draped buildings and lamp posts in black...
When reading the June 23 article of the probable death knell of Amerika magazine, I felt great concern. The next day, in my daily paper, there was a story of the increasingly virulent campaign the Russian government is carrying on internally against the U.S. One of our few opportunities of bringing the truth to the Russian people has been Amerika. Knowingly, in the face of the fantastic lies about us which the Russian government are feeding their people, should it be permitted to languish? Isn't this, rather, the moment to use every possible means to increase its effectiveness...
...yard-liners can read his studious progress review, Modern Single Wing Football (Lippincott, $5). During the war years, relates Coach Caldwell, the T, "the oldest of the basic offensive formations . . . was exploding all over the place." But he "couldn't believe that T was sounding the death knell of the Single Wing." To prove that "an old Single Winger dies hard," Caldwell borrowed some T trimmings (flankers, men-in-motion, split ends, etc.), at war's end went back to Princeton as head coach and hit paydirt by winning the Big Three title four years straight. His crowning...
Thus in a recent issue of BBC's The Listener, testy, old (64) Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis* rings a knell for his fellow English painters. One reason for the bell's toll, says Lewis, is high taxes which sop up the spare cash of collectors who were once well-to-do. Other reasons for the artist's sad state: his expenses have more than doubled in recent years; dealers demand 337% commission on everything they sell...