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Mulish sterility is an old slander of this branch of the Equidae, based on a half-truth. The couplings of mule and mule are fruitless (the genetic grounds: incompatibility of chromosomes). But as in the case of Farmer Vermaak's sport, a mule mare now & then carries her own dam's chromosomes-and once in some 200,000 encounters meets the stallion that has her (germ-cell) number...
...passed for hard-pressed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to concoct his explanations, the German radio let out the big, bad news by quoting Allied announcements, adding: "Marshal Badoglio, in the meantime, confirmed the capitulation in a broadcast from Rome, although the King of Italy on Sept. 8 rejected as slander the suggestion that Italy was thinking of capitulation." Later reactions...
...Faction's Fight. There were times during the week when a unified France seemed impossible. Slander and counter-slander muddied the Algiers atmosphere. The mudslinging began even as General de Gaulle arrived (TIME, June 7) to receive a correct but unenthusiastic welcome from General Giraud and Minister Murphy, an ovation from the people. To the cheers, the Fighting French leader responded by raising his arms in a V sign. Anti-De Gaullists sneered that such a gesture hardly differed from a Hitler salute...
...fidelity. They were truly angels of mercy-dirty, underfed, overworked but always cheerful. They deserve individual medals for their heroism and devotion to duty, rather than to be depicted as they are in the play you reviewed and the play should return to its former "setting" and cease its slander of the wonderful nurses of Bataan...
Cineproducer Pare Lorentz (The River, The Plow That Broke the Plains) sued RKO for $1,619,147 damages for slander and breach of contract. RKO stopped production last July on his Name, Age and Occupation (25-year odyssey of a "composite American...