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...Kennon campaign is sweeping the state and gathering the strength of a statewide landslide which will smother the opposition in an avalanche of votes in the primary...
Vachel Lindsay's Simon Legree" in Douglas Moore's choral adaption enjoyed enthusiastic competence at the hands of the Tiger unit. Adept musical comedy touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...
...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...
...blind brother was discovered 17 days earlier (TIME, April 7); in Manhattan. Death came to the recluse, police decided, when he hit a tripwire to one of the booby traps he kept in his rotting mansion to trap thieves, causing a pile of hoarded junk to fall and smother...
...guess; but Psychiatrist Edward A. Strecker, an expert who helped in the medical phase of General Marshall's inquiry, does. In most cases, says he, it was Mother. In a companion book to General Cooke's (Their Mothers' Sons; Lippincott; $2.75), Dr. Strecker argues that "smother love" was the root of the psychoneurotics' trouble...