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Much of the effect of the football parody was lost by the absence of the Cadet Corps. The Bank returned the snub, however, by punctuating its greetings to the 100-odd West Pointers with a question mark...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue recently, an odd-looking, snub-nosed little car drew some mildly curious stares. Few of the onlookers realized that it was a postwar model of the Volkswagen, the car which Hitler once promised to put in every German garage. With an air-cooled rear engine, and a luggage compartment under the hood, it was the first of 600 which Germany is shipping to the U.S. to sell at $1,280 to $1,997. The Volkswagen's appearance was the latest example of a new business phenomenon: the growing revival of export trade in both...
...When snub-nosed Wayne Long walked out of the old brick state penitentiary at Salem, Ore. one day last week, FBI agents had the word and they were on hand to tail him. Twenty-five-year-old Long was a toughie all right; he had three stretches for stealing and assault on his record, had crashed out of prison twice. But it wasn't Long the G-men were interested in. They hoped he would lead them to his old pal, John Omar Pinson, a cop killer who had escaped from Salem a year before and worked himself onto...
...recording was flown back east for the dinner, but the assembled Gridironers and their 500 guests never heard it. Last week Hearstling George Dixon, professional Washington funnyman and not a member of the Gridiron Club, told what had happened. The club had decided to snub Harry Truman in May as the President had snubbed the club in December. The record was not played. Chided Columnist Dixon: "A spirit of pique and wounded self-importance...
Cambridge's workmen didn't snub the rumors or try to stifle them. Forthrightly and honestly, they blasted open their kiosk island and laid it before the public gaze. Thundering pneumatic drills proved the strength of their concrete. Sledge hammers exposed cross-section after cross-section, showing it pure and well-mixed to the last pebble. Today, disinterested students can stand before a saw-horse guard rail and examine the dismembered rubble: mute testimony to the honesty and conviction of a few simple workmen...