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...very much his father's son and he had yet to prove his own worth. A member of one of the Oxford University debating teams, he still was to win his spurs in the hard school of the House of Commons. He quickly became known as a quiet plugger rather than a brilliant go-getter. He looked more like an office boy than a Cabinet member. His chief virtues were patience and calm...
...plugger Hewitt can hold the fort against studies, Lonnie Stowell (now a distance man), and Bob White, who will be recovered from the effects of an appendectomy soon, he'll be doing a grand job. Big Jim Curwen, an All-American 100 man two years ago, is now working out and will be trying to bring his four-lap efforts down to the 53's again. A great deal of laboratory work is the biggest obstacle to Jim's breaking into the 52-second class again, so until the season is well under way, he must be regarded...
Meanwhile Willie Gallacher, lone Communist M.P., suddenly dropped his bellicose anti-Hitler baiting and became, along with Shaw, Sir Oswald Mosley, Haldane and Lloyd George, a plugger for peace. By last week London's Daily Worker had obviously re-established its pipeline to Moscow and instead of wild conjectures about the new Party line, was again dishing out the straight official Comintern dope. It front-paged an editorial about "imperialist statesmen" still "bargaining hard," continued...
Jack Bronston, triple-threat man, starred for the Dormitory team, while Plugger Young, Henry Evertt, and Vince Rossi looked good in the line...
Reports of relevant meetings (occasionally denied) became more & more frequent: Hermann Goring, vacationing in Italy, with Soviet Ambassador to Italy Boris Stein, an avowed plugger for the Pact; Franz von Papen with high officials in Moscow, twice; and, three weeks ago,when all was arranged, Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano with the prospective signer, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Count Ciano went home in a state of high nervous excitement...