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Last week, this newspaper asked that the Conservative League make clear its intentions. Now, amidst the conflicting statements of the past two days, it is obvious that such a clarification will not come. At the same time, the rabid outcry made Sunday by an anonymous liberal group has lent the appearance of low comedy to the whole situation. But perhaps derision is the best of all possible solutions. The contemptuous laughter of the community may keep the Pet Skunk Faction from doing the harm of which it is capable...
...graver students. And at an age when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin, Miss Cam can wax enthusiastic about a book she read yesterday or a Maitland she read three decades ago. One student in her seminar on medieval documents, dizzied by her rabid interest, could only mutter; "She gets so damn excited over some dusty records...
Claude J. Batchelor gobbled up the Communist line almost from the day in 1951 when he was taken prisoner in Korea. He quickly became known as a rabid "progressive," worked constantly to convert his fellow P.O.W.s, and, to anyone who would listen, proclaimed himself a "peace fighter." When other prisoners were repatriated after the ceasefire, 22-year-old Corporal Batchelor. 1st Cavalry Division, was a leader of the 23 Americans who chose to stay behind...
...both troubles and critics. Some physical educators, and many a parent whose boy failed to make a team, sincerely believe the whole movement has degenerated into an unseemly exploitation of a relatively few talented boys. The accused: local commercial sponsors from jewelry stores and filling stations to undertaking parlors, rabid fathers and coaches trying vicariously to realize their own frustrated ambitions, mobs of partisan fans to whom winning means more than the boys' welfare or the game. Counters Pete McGovern: "The kids, on their own, can take the competition in their stride; it's the adults who sometimes...
Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey herself was the product of a divorced mother's second marriage, an unhappy alliance that ended in another divorce when Audrey was ten. Her father, J. A. Hepburn-Ruston, was a high-pressure business promoter and rabid anti-Communist who, after leaving Audrey's mother, joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists). Audrey's earliest companions were her two older half brothers, with whom she spent many hours in tomboy comradeship, climbing trees and racing across the green fields of their Belgian estate. Unlike most little girls...