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...tireless pair of reportorial legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times...
...Afrika Korpsmen, cocky and arrogant, regarded any kindness as a sign of American softness; one group staged a sit-down strike until they were given coffee; two other squads took to shaking trees and thumbnailing apples. Going lightly on the Nazis, the Government cut their individual daily quotas down to 40 boxes. But generally, the P.O.W.s made little trouble, and their work meant saving the entire crop...
Little El Salvador was the first Central American country to use passive resistance to depose a dictator. Last May General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez was ousted by a sit-down strike (brazos caidos, literally: arms dangling). When a military clique/headed by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, clamped a new dictatorship on the country last week, Salvadorans began to dangle their arms again in a dangerous...
...bill passed. But Labor's sit-down made revision and more fights certain. Said the Manchester Guardian: "The Government has emerged from what might be called a reconnaissance in force into very difficult territory...
...copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance on ice, how to skate, spin and jump...