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Once a loud Dies committee booster, the American Legion now looked the other way. The press grew more & more hostile to an investigation that seemed irresponsible. Many who once thought Martin Dies served a purpose -when there actually was a fellow traveler behind every other lamppost -became more & more sniffy about his methods, said the FBI could look after such things better. But fewer and cooler headlines made Martin Dies reckless. He made the mistake of colliding with Vice President Henry Wallace, and the encounter sent him fizzling away to Texas. There he announced his latest fantasy...
Made to Take. "I shall fight in front of Paris, in Paris, behind Paris," swore France's old tiger, Georges Clemenceau in 1914 when German artillery rumbled 17 miles away. "We shall defend every stone, every clod of earth, every lamppost and every building," declared an official French spokesman last week...
...midnight, when the family trade has presumably departed, Gay New Orleans offers a third show called Mardi Gras Frolic. This is a somewhat bolder type of entertainment. The clown, for example, who earlier in the evening cavorted on a lamppost, now cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings...
...Harvard needs is a little encouragement to break, forth in the beer - drinking, lamppost - hanging type of singing that we are going to sponsor next year," Coleman remarked. He added that tryouts will soon be given in the Union for interested Freshmen...
...Stalin was proud of his exploits, proud of the way he darted into Armenian stores, stole what he wanted, fired some shots and ran, leaving men puking blood behind him; proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters (he had his picture painted doing it); proud of the mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train...