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...when the Senate considers immigration legislation (no living Senator can draw a more appalling picture of the Yellow, Black and Brown Perils) this daily matinee is the sum total of Bob Reynolds' Senate achievements. His only other distinctions: that he was one of the Senate's most rabid isolationists until "We were attacked, suh!"; that he is rabidly antilabor; that he once shot an Alaskan bull walrus at 20 paces; that he once kissed the late Jean Harlow on the Capitol steps...
Pittsburgh, which has the worst rabies epidemic in the history of the city, with 305 rabid dogs since January 1943, and three deaths from hydrophobia...
...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society will hold its annual spring pep rally tonight. The card will feature an eight man free-for-all bout between four rabid copy-boys for PM and Princeton's 1944 polo team. Vag will referee. High tea and blintzes will be served between rounds and shillelaghs may be checked at the door. No cover, no minimum...
John S. Sumner, mild-mannered successor to the late, rabid Anthony Corn-stock as secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, blew off a bit of steam after reading D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterley* (TIME, March 27). He discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
Long before Pearl Harbor, Lausche was interventionist. His election in 1941 was virtually a Cleveland referendum on the war; and he soundly trounced rabid isolationist Congressman Martin Sweeney. Cleveland, under Lausche, has feared no Detroit riots. (His ticket last week included three Negro Councilmen.) As mayor, he has helped settle many a labor dispute, has had labor unions with him from the start. So are local G.O.P. businessmen: his Republican opponent had a hard time getting campaign finances...