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Reinforced Concrete. Scorning the W.F.T.U., the A.F.L.'s Free Trade Union Committee (formed in 1944) decided to help rebuild democratic unions in Europe. It handed the Herculean assignment to Brown because he was a well-educated (N.Y.U., Columbia) A.F.L. organizer with a rugged constitution and lots of hustle. Since...
The offensive against the Reds was led by a rugged, fiery Corsican, Pierre Ferri-Pisani, now 50. He and Brown had met in-Marseille, become friends. With Brown's help, Ferri-Pisani found "men brave enough," went to Communist headquarters in Marseille and delivered an ultimatum: "If there is...
There is a certain fascination to a Chemistry Laboratory, a fascination that lies hidden somewhere in the rows of bottles, the smells, and the steam baths that gurgle and spout like coffee percolators. Students in rugged Chemistry 20 must sense it presence, for they are willing to trade a normal...
Young Lieut. Patton, a dead-shot rifleman, banged away at the twisting target. He was outraged when the judges told him that he had scored one clean miss. Why just the day before, in a practice round, he had set an unofficial record of 98 out of 100. But Patton...
The game was a rough one, with 14 penalties in all. Harvard had five of these, while the rugged Bruins drew nine.