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...Paris' pint-sized Roland Garros Stadium, American Singles Champion Tony Trabert ran Californian Art Larsen all over a wet and sloppy court to take the French Clay Court Tennis Championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned the tournament into an American triumph by overpowering Mme. Ginnette Bucaille...
...Pint of Beer. "Facts in Ireland," writes Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached...
...final count, De Valera was defeated largely on the issue of the price of a pint of beer. "Surely," he said to one heckling voter in Limerick, "there is more in the world than the pint." But to many an Irishman, wearied by years of heavy taxation and high prices, unimpressed by the government's high-sounding plans to "harness the winds and the tides" in expensive power projects, the i s. 3 d. pint of beer was the whole story. Since De Valera was responsible for it, De Valera must...
With unwonted hoopla, the New York State Medical Society announced last week a new gimmick in blood banking. Under its "blood assurance program," the head of a family can sign up at one of the member blood banks and, in return for one pint of blood each year, get a certificate entitling him and each member of his family to a maximum of four pints of transfusion blood. A single individual is assured of all the blood he may need. A family in which nobody is qualified to give blood can get in on the plan if a friend...
Meanwhile, many a plain citizen who wanted to give a patriotic pint for Korea, and also protect his family against being bled financially white for hospital blood, has felt that he was getting a raw deal. In many communities he would find that he had no blood credit, would have to pay up to $35 a pint for the blood or replace it at the rate of two pints for one, and still pay a service charge which might run to $25. (For safety's sake, better hospitals retype all blood and carefully match it with the patient...