Word: phil
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Last week the U.S. Communist Party itself threw boulders across the track. It cooked up a ludicrous counter-propaganda scheme. The Commies could hardly come out and say they were against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Nor could they attack such backers of the train as Phil Murray, Bill Green or the Girl Scouts. So, in a memo from the party's educational headquarters, district leaders were instructed to tell whoever would listen that the "key backers" of the Freedom Train are "reactionary big businessmen" with a "demagogic purpose." Leaders were told to organize tours through...
Last week the Democrats and the P.A.C. came back with their tails left hanging on the barbed wire. Grundyman Lichtenwalter rolled up the biggest G.O.P. majority in the district's history. Democrat Phil Storch, 36, president of the Lehigh Valley Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.), had concentrated on industrial Lehigh County. "If I can win it," he had said, "we will have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election...
...problem of the Crimson soccer team this year, as on this fall's forward line will be playing the high scorers of three other years. Roy Heisler, who averaged three or four a game in 1944, is back; Manny Aguirre, star of the team in 1945, has returned; and Phil Potter, last year's center forward, is now a Junior. Besides, Mac has the whole of last year's forward line and that of the there, the H.A.A. will foot the gas bills...
...This year the recordings of Eddy Howard, Frankie Laine, Art Lund, Phil Brito, Billy Eckstime and Vic Damone (TIME, July 21) have become bestsellers, jukebox leaders and disc-jockey favorites across...
Draft Dodgers. In the diamond hierarchy, the P.C.L. has an unusual status. The 16 major-league clubs own or control 70% of the nation's 326 clubs in organized baseball. But the AAA coast league is 87½% independent (the one exception is Phil Wrigley's Los Angeles Angels). Still, the majors have kept a tight hold on the P.C.L. through the draft law, which forces the clubs to sell their stars or risk having them drafted at season's end for a niggling...