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...beaten aging President Sergio Osmeña in the election last April. On him the whole moral and physical rehabilitation of the war-devastated islands depended. He would have to give the Republic credit, a face, a mind, perhaps even a heart. He was not exactly starting from scratch, but it would be a long pull...
...have been operating between rigidly controlled prices and uncontrolled costs. The heavy wage increases have only partially seeped through to what we buy, but eventually they will be felt in full [see Autos]. It is convenient ... to blame our present situation upon Government price-fixing. . . . But let us scratch a little deeper...
...Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous than biting a girl...
...bottom half of the sixth, in which the Big Green bunched three of its base knocks, was Knowles' undoing. With one away, John Stockwell poked one into left for a single. He went to second on Bill Cary's scratch hit, and to third when a walk to Dave Kerr filled the bases. Hank Durham thereupon punched a single out into right and Stockwell came across. HARVARD ab r h po a e Mariaschin, 2b 3 0 0 3 4 0 Swegan, ss 4 0 1 2 1 1 Petrillo, cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Fitz...
...chief social function was that of hunter, but Raven is not a success at the job. He prefers to lie under a tree and scratch. It is Raven's bad luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...