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Fate grinds him small. The mighty Knight of the Lions (as he now calls himself) is laid up for a week by the claws of a pussy cat. He is paraded through Barcelona with a placard on his back...
...bowlful of noodles and poured a swig of hot rice wine through his lips. Shrilly Wu shouted: "Long live Sun Yat-sen!" He sang China's national anthem. Then police boosted Wu and his comrades into an open truck. On each man's back was a white placard noting his crime. Sirens wailing, the truck rumbled through Shanghai's busiest streets to a dusty alley on the outskirts. The condemned were yanked down, lined up. Executioners fired pistol shots into the backs of their heads...
Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...
...With that other, ever-loyal functionary, Willie Schneiderman,* he tried to organize the waterfront, and began to attract the attention of party headquarters in New York. He was charged with resisting arrest during a melee in Los Angeles' Plaza. Then during an unemployment demonstration he waved a placard reading, "Defend the Soviet Union," and got a sentence of $500 fine and 180 days in jail. Frankie almost became a martyr then, but the party had other plans for him. On orders, Frankie jumped bail and vanished into the party's underground...
Rivera's latest mural, which was unveiled last summer in Mexico City's new Del Prado Hotel, made history too (TIME, June 14-21). It contained a portrait of one of Juárez' anticlerical followers displaying a placard with the words Dios no existe-"God does not exist." The slogan was drawn straight from Mexican revolutionary history, but in predominantly Roman Catholic Mexico it still spelled riot. The Archbishop refused to bless the hotel...