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...three hours one morning, Mississippi's rabid John Rankin, South Carolina's Burnet Maybank and half a dozen other cotton legislators abused, battered and threatened Di Salle. With a decisiveness and political courage seldom shown in Washington these days, Di Salle stuck to one answer: "If there is no ceiling price on raw cotton, the entire stabilization program is doomed...
HANOVER, N.H.--Some like it hot, but the Dartmouth man likes it cold and he almost got more than he bargained for at last weekend's 41st annual Winter Carnival. When the temperature skidded to a chilly 25-below on Friday night, even the rabid outdoorsmen (and women) in the huge crowd willingly ducked for shelter. Indeed, indoor sports are supposed to share top billing with the other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many...
...Honorable Hugh Stanley, 24, brother of the Earl of Derby, informed Fox-Strangways that Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, rabid Socialist and ex-coal-miner, was being entertained at White's. Bevan's host was Sir John Slessor, Air Chief Marshal, who had invited the minister in for a drink after a meeting on R.A.F. manpower problems...
Within minutes after the kickoff, it became plain to the 56,748 rabid fans in Notre Dame Stadium that Frank Leahy had finally spoken a mouthful. Purdue Coach Stu Holcomb, onetime assistant to Army's master strategist Red Blaik, had drilled his Boilermakers to peak precision. Behind their own hard-charging line, Purdue's backs ripped a dazed Notre Dame forward wall to shreds. At halftime Purdue...
Aged (80) Jan Christian Smuts, who had fought the British in the Boer War, who had taken South-West Africa from the Germans in World War I, and who favored a moderate racial policy, lay gravely ill last week at his farm near Pretoria. Rabid Nationalists kept him awake with taunting phone calls as the election returns from South-West Africa came in. In the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown, citizens who realized that the Germans now had the balance of power in their Parliament asked each other, "How's your German...