Word: springs
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Westbrook Pegler was on the receiving end of a blast. Representative Arthur G. Klein (Dem., N.Y.) cried that such "scatological skill . . . could spring only from a sick mind." Klein urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
Last week Heil had another feather in his discoverer's cap. Florence, which in recent months has been sending its art treasures to the U.S. for display (TIME, Feb. 7), wanted to borrow the wandering Florentine boy for an exhibition in the Museum of the Bargello this spring...
...Blue should place most of its men in the individual championships at Princeton next week, and is heavily touted to win the nationals over Ohio and Michigan later this spring...
Hockey, basketball, wrestling, and all the other activities of the recent season that have been keeping College sports fans from hibernation take a last whirl in the next few days. Spring athletics, in the incubator stage of late, are getting set to come outdoors...
Down in Briggs Cage, even amongst the panting trackmen, Stuffy McInnis and the baseball squad are flexing and reflexing, reading clippings from Dixie about the spring practices of major league teams. The last snows of March may wet down the first dust on the diamond...