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Stuffy still recalls how Eddie Collins of the Red Sox kept a wad of gum on the button of his cap until he had two strikes against him. Rip Sowell of the Pirates would never go to shortstop position without touching third, and Tris Speaker, centerfielder for the Bosox, would construct a neatly drawn line in front of the plate each time he came up to bat. Stuffy has a lot of respect for a good superstition...
...move to rip state tax exemptions from educational institutions which refuse to fire "known Communists" from faculties and student bodies was proposed in the Massachusetts Senate yesterday...
...afraid, Viereck's way of emphasizing this--but does not bother to explain why one system was accepted and the other fought. Instead by means of some dialogues with a ludicrous stereotype named Gaylord Babbitt, Viereck creates a phony example of a deluded intellectual, and proceeds to rip into his artistic, economic, and political beliefs...
...have read Furry's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and before Boston reporters. Each time, when questioned about communists, their activities and political purposes, Furry has acted like a Rip Van Winkle, who has been mentally asleep for the past decade and a half. Asked about his activities with a front group in 1948, Furry kept talking about Loyalist Spain. To the Congressmen, he insisted that American propaganda was distorting Soviet actions and he accused this government of persecuting communists for their political beliefs...
...Dubbeldam, a handful of sober, weary Dutchmen paused for a moment to stand bareheaded before a row of four rough wooden coffins, but there was little time for mourning. The very next night new gales whipped the swollen tides down the wind tunnel of the North Sea to rip new holes in weakened Dutch dikes and add still more victims to the 1,372 already dead in the floods...