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...trousseaux, so as to set up house-haunting in style: winding staircases, sliding panels, well-trained lightning and thunder, gashed faces, bloody hands, Japanese servants, hidden blueprints, missing banknotes; it was kill and conk, conk and kill. George Moore once snorted that in War and Peace Tolstoy tried to outdo Nature, and would wake up at night screaming: "I forgot High Mass! I forgot a yacht race!" The authors of The Bat must have similarly wailed: "We left out a tarantula! We forgot a trapdoor...
Since rearmament boomed the U.S. aircraft industry's work force to 750,000, the A.F.L.'s International Association of Machinists and the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers have tried to outdo each other in demands on planemakers. Three months ago, in spite of war and the dangerously lagging aircraft program, the U.A.W. voted to strike North American Aviation, called it off only after it got an average 16?-an-hour pay boost on recommendation of the Wage Stabilization Board. The rest of the industry assumed that the award established a pattern...
...actor John Drew of the books he had amassed during his career. But the collection found its biggest aid in the rivalry of two theatre-conscious graduates. Robert Could Shaw '69 and Everett Wendell '82. Shaw and Wendell often bid against each other at auctions. In their efforts to outdo each other, both of them built up splendid collections of books and mementons of the theatre. In the end, both gave their collections to the University, and Shaw became the first curator, serving from...
Some of the Socialists behaved the same way with Churchill's proposal to create a new Home Guard, plans for which had been studied while Socialist Manny Shinwell was Minister of Defense. Last week it was Manny Shinwell who led the fight on the bill. Apparently trying to outdo Nye Bevan as a Tory-baiter, Manny kept the House of Commons in session for 20 hours, in the first all night sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath...
Dartmouth's defensive players, famed for their intricate tactics, will be called upon to outdo themselves at Hanover today against Cornell's hard-hitting football forces...