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...weeks Perón had been maneuvering his flyswatter nearer & nearer the gadfly Socialist weekly La Vanguardia. First he closed Vanguardia's B.A. plant, on the deadpan excuse that it violated municipal ordinances (TIME, Sept. 8). Since then the Socialists have skipped from one secret printing plant to another, sometimes publishing on wrapping paper, but always publishing. Last week Perón seemed to have the swatter poised; a new decree required each paper to carry its printer's name and address on penalty of confiscation of the issue...
...ball used was generally quite soft, and its shape was nearer to being round than it is today. With passing confined to a rare lateral, a large, hard pigskin was not needed. The team would lace and blow up the ball just before the game and often they had a long, difficult time doing it to their satisfaction. Woodman, one of the five surviving members of the team of '87, remembers his difficulties preparing the pigskin with pained amusements...
...religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, found almost no audience...
...like that now in vogue takes little cognizance of class standing and keeps an artificial caste hierarchy intact for four years of everyone's college life. The person who took girls to football games as a Freshman and is still escorting them there as a Senior has approached little nearer the ideal seat by his academic efforts. The places he wants are being taken by Freshman and graduate students and others who sit alone and like...
...Changchun itself, which the Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...