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...witch!" He assaulted startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back on his farm, with a pitchfork and a stave or two handy, just in case...
...Christian Science Monitor so far is the single Boston paper to uphold the Corporation's stand. The Monitor said that "the University has taken disciplinary action in the cases of three" and added "on the whole, the handling of the matter appears intelligent and sane...
Hall's tricky maneuvers at Yale had Harvard going around in circles. The University had decided long ago that the only sane football policy was scheduling teams which were willing to keep football secondary to education. When Hall and Yale refused to go along, it seemed that Harvard must either hit the secondary schools for football talent or drop the sport altogether...
...query about Republican prospects in 1954 drew a smile and a quick reply from the President. It is just as simple as looking at the palm of your hand, he said. If the Republican Party can show as its record over the next two years a progressive, sane program of accomplishment, which takes care of the welfare and interest of all our people and doesn't give itself away to any group or class, and if that program is properly advertised, the G.O.P. will be back with a very greatly enhanced majority...
...Your manifesto gives hope of sane, solid journalism in years to come. It also gives evidence of the deep democratic and theocentric philosophy which is its root. Here is a magazine which realistically denies the puerile illusion that all is relative-morality, beauty and truth...