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...hour's torrential rain which ripped through Cambridge yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 4:30 o'clock had the University maintenance men hustling, but quick action with the mop, pall, and pump kept damage from backed-up drains and flooded cellars to a minimum...
...Whenever the Nationalist Army comes to mop up a place of Communists, it is the Fire Society that points out to the troops which village is a bandit [Communist] hideout ... or who is a bandit and should be killed. In other words, a single word from the Fire Society can turn a whole village to ashes or deprive a peasant of his life...
Name or Talent? To San Franciscans in their huge granite Opera House, as to most audiences, Rubinstein is a small, lumpy figure with a classic brow and a frizzy Harpo Marx-like mop, spotlighted on a distant stage. The impenetrable dignity Pianist Rubinstein manages to assume on stage conceals a talent for mimicry, a love of partying, and a quick-tongued...
...Pietro Secchia is in charge of organization and recruiting of new members. A broad-shouldered giant with a monkish, curiously luminous face under a mop of dark hair, his brilliant false teeth glittering as he speaks, he lacks his colleagues' intellectual sparkle; but he tops them in dogged organizing genius. Secchia has himself stated his objective: "A Communist section for every church tower in Italy...
...needed now was a president. Most likely choice: Wilson McCarthy. As president, one of McCarthy's first tasks will be to smooth over relations with MOP in which Alleghany Corp.'s spectacular Robert R. Young has a big interest. Bob Young now has his hands full trying to take over the New York Central, merge it with his Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, Feb. 3). But he has his eye on a vast transcontinental empire. If he can get MOP out of receivership-and take over control in the process-his next westward step might well be a deal with...