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...scuffle for election as U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth this year is a friendly one, devoid of low blows and rabbit punches. Neither Senator Leverett Saltonstall nor the challenger, John I. Fitzgerald, have called each other a spade, and whispers are currently inaudible. The two nominees are old friends, having served together in the State Legislature. Their sons served together overseas in World...
...Hall jolly-up known officially as an "informal dance," started our the same way, but the foursome shown above added a new wrinkle bridge. They are, from left to right. Muriel Kaplan, Radcliffe '49, Jean Armstrong, Radcliffe '49, Martin S. Fox 3L and Rarry M. Williams 11. The four-spade contract went down one trick, doubled and vulnerable...
Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
...sidewalk cafés and clanged down the corrugated iron shutters, which did not come up again for two days. In the Excelsior bar an American matron twittered: "Oh, I saw it all-rocks flying and sticks coming down on heads, bang-bang-bang. It was so exciting!" A spade-bearded Italian gentleman, ordering another vermouth and ice, said: "This would never have happened in the old days...
Chuckle (Wy.) Bellylaugh drove in 21 of the Crimson runs. Sergeant James Toumey ran in the other two. The boatings: WE THEY Neverstall, jg Choo Handemedown, ss Choo Pooshemup, tony Train Stein, beer Smith, trom. Bear, woolly Punch, ugh Coxe, sic Brelis, spade Weather, wet Kops, ng Track, fast Cabot, lockout Altrocchi? Marx, engels