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...sheer fun of it, contestants perform the same stunts that once kept Japanese tumblers in big-time vaudeville. The tumbler who brought down the house last week was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, dimpled, curly-headed Bonnie Nebelong. Into her minute-and-a-half performance, she packed so many spine-tingling contortions and body twists that the judges had eyes for no one else...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "hold-the-line" order last week stiffened the spine of the oldest (56 years), mellowest independent Federal agency with regulatory powers. After ten months of needling from OPA, the Interstate Commerce Commission rescinded for the rest of 1943 the 4.8% freight-rate increase that it had granted the railroads last year. That increase had been granted to the railroads to ease their fiscal pain when they granted a 10% wage increase to railroad labor...
...beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest...
...Excellent": Boys Town's famed Father Edward J. Flanagan; in a hospital in Rochester, Minn., after an operation on his spine...
...ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral's bid until the homestretch, then, in a spine-tingling stretch duel, reached the wire close on the Admiral's heels...