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...loving house guest was Hotel Heir Nicky Hilton. At week's end, the Waynes agreed to agree on money, but John still intended to have his day in court. Hollywood was touched by his pained candor as he drawled: "I deeply regret that I'll have to sling...
...yard field at Annapolis with rough & tumble abandon, the men of Army and Navy were on the warpath again. Object of the game: to hurl a 5-oz. India rubber ball into a 6-ft.-square net, using a webbed hickory stick as a combination scoop and sling. If a member of one of the ten-man teams happened to clobber a rival with a stick, or send him sprawling on his face, it was all part of the game. The stakes of honor were considerable, involving not only the traditional Army-Navy rivalry but also the national collegiate title...
...week's end, Pop was out of the hospital with his puffed-up hand in a sling, his left hand proudly brandishing a letter from his captain recommending his promotion to staff sergeant. "This time," he said, without too much confidence in his voice, "I'm going to make it stick. After all, I retire in two years...
...purpose of Gen. Ed. Ahf is not to learn how to write "purple prose," to "sling bull," or fill pages with a quota of words, but to strengthen the student's grasp of his native tongue, to smooth the wrinkles in his writing technique. In short, it is to do what no course in humanities, or even literature can be expected to do that is to offer the majority of those who will never darken the doors of Warren House the opportunity of improving their writing ability during the first two semesters at Harvard. Joseph M. Cronin...
...admitted a certain fondness. Last week the court (three out of the five judges were former Nazis) found against Avie:"bach and Ohrenstein. sentenced Auerbach to 30 months in jail and $643 in fines, Ohrenstein to one year and $2,380 in fines. Auerbach, his arm in a sling, sick with diabetes contracted during his concentration-camp days, politely thanked the court, complimented the chief judge for the fairness of the trial, though he was somewhat critical of the "terror verdict." and went back to the drab little clinic where he had been held during the trial's four...