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Besides printing every pronunciamento, bull and encyclical which the Pope may issue, Osservatore Romano's, editor, blond, stocky Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, has found occasion in the past to denounce athletics for women as a cause of sterility, condemn anti-Semitic feeling in Italy. No punch-puller is Editor Dalla Torre. More than once Osservatore Romano has dubbed Herr Hitler "Antichrist." Before World War II Osservatore Romano had a circulation of 40,000. A few copies went to Catholic editors in other parts of the world, most of the rest were sold on the newsstands of Rome...
...oddeh truck," he suggests. The other truck is hailed and it speeds into position, driven by a weazened little man who cannot conceal his delight at being one of the puller-downers. An extension of the cable is tied to his bumper and presently the two Macks, looking like two obstreperous elephants, are tugging away at the stubborn wall. Heave, Heave. And HEAVE. The wall sways out toward the street and the spectators shrink back. The truck's wheels spin in a last yank...
...pulling. Frot's friends shrieked "Liberty! Liberty!" Somebody got one good swing at Frot just before a slim, dark youth ducked under Frot's guard, seized his wiry black beard and all but yanked it out by the roots. Republican Guardsmen rushed in, hustled Frot and beard-puller away. The beard-puller turned out to be Francois, 21-year-old son of rowdy Royalist Leon Daudet...
Meantime all Detroit has asked, "Who is Nancy Brown?" Years ago the News's editors concluded that the best way to build up their columnist as a circulation-puller was to make a mystery of her identity. They have continued to whet Detroit's curiosity by creating around Nancy Brown's real name as titillating a hocus-pocus as that which made the reputations of The Man in the Iron Mask and radio's Your Lover. At her parties and religious services she mingles anonymously with the crowd. Only a few of her Column Folks have...
...clock the Cambridge Fire Department answered an alarm from the box on Boylston Street in front of Eliot House, and at 12:14 they were back in their lair. Blame for the alarm rests on the shoulders of Warren P. Munsell, Jr. '37, a notorious box puller...