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...happens that Belgium has a howling would-be-Hitler in the sleek person of Rexist Leader Léon Degrelle, who has been raking every kind of muck for months against Economist van Zeeland and finally made some of it stick (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). But Belgians did not think this week that their King was taking a risk in stepping out of his country and away from his Government at such a crucial time. They felt that the Government was not so much being left behind as it was going abroad in the person of the King. Reason...
...Regent's Park Pond a middle-aged patriot was placidly rowing a boat when the silence began, tried to stand upright in his skiff and splashed overboard. Coming to the surface he stood waist-deep in muck and cold water, head bowed for 90 seconds before squishing ashore...
Washington Calling! fictionally rakes old-fashioned muck-raking—dedicated to the subservience of politics to big business —but with an agreeable, new-fangled urbanity...
...salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head to foot. Sweat trickled down his nose and cheeks, dripped from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair while an attendant pulled off the dusty boots, Clyde Beatty, the most celebrated trainer of lions and tigers in the world and part owner of the newest and most...
...Carl P. "Muck" Ray, of All American and Dartmouth football fame is weekending at Stillman Infirmary, a victim to children's deseases. He was overcome with the measles while playing baseball here recently...