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...conference been worth holding? Many an editor thought not. Addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, lean Lord Rothermere, publisher of the London super-Tory Daily Mail, complained:* "We have now in Geneva gratuitously provided a platform [where] the enemies of freedom may pour out their torrents of dialectical abuse, wasting the time and wearing the patience of all men of good will...
...simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson would be playing Johnson; Menjou (in a double-breasted vest) is rather more Menjou than politician. Only Lansbury, whom Metro has long dieted on lean parts, does any real acting. As the adderish lady publisher, she sinks a fine fang...
...hole." Relliy, a pitcher at Roxbury, will probably be pressed into mound service before long. The squad, which includes several prep schoolers who haven't had a great deal of experience, has, according to its coach, "a lot of spirit but it's not entirely gifted. Things look lean now, but they might improve." They'll have...
...golf at 3 o'clock in the morning than in the daytime," was back to try his hand. So was the great Bobby Jones, 46 (now an Atlanta lawyer), playing his one tournament of the year. And there were such other old masters as chunky Gene Sarazen and lean Horton Smith, the putting master who won the first Masters' 14 years ago and sank impossible putts on rain-sodden greens to win the third...
They were lean, hard-boiled young sailors from the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union. The Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved in on them to clear the entrances, the seamen had their own roughhouse counter-move ready. They rushed the cops, blocked the exchange entrance with a carpet of bodies. The surprised policemen started swinging their clubs-and the first labor brawl in Wall Street's history...