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...Britain's elite Pytchley Hunt, a horsy chap once superciliously told Gulbenkian that he had never before seen an orchid worn in the field. Gulbenkian's amiable squelch: "My dear sir, I expect this is the first time you have seen an Armenian out with the Pytchley!" *Bugle-voiced Comedienne Hutton "retired" forever a year ago, has since launched two comebacks...
Died. Frank F. Merriam, 89, onetime (1934-39) Republican governor of California; of a heart attack; at Long Beach, Calif. Succeeding James Rolph Jr. in 1934, Merriam used the National Guard to squelch a San Francisco longshoremen's strike, that fall trounced Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair in a bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign...
Dunn admitted that material could not be censored, but said that candidates would be "asked to change it." Union Committee Chairman Merom Brachman '58 added, "There will be as much beer, as much good entertainment as in the past. We want to squelch after effects...
Perhaps the most effective Inpatriate method to squelch the regurgitation of summers abroad is to listen very attentively, occasionally brushing a tear from your cheek. When this has attracted sufficient notice you will be asked the inevitable question. Squaring your shoulders, you reply, "No, never. I'd love to go, just love to, but can't spare the money. The family, of course. Sole support. Work' in the mines all summer." Here you simply but dramatically turn your dirt-grimed and work-beaten palms to the assembled company. Since you have had the foresight to rub your hands...
After that, powerful army units fanned through the city to squelch further outbreaks. But in Porto Alegre, capital of Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, mobs fired the U.S. consulate and offices of two U.S. firms. Six died and more than a hundred rioters were wounded as troops dispersed them with gunfire. In Sao Paulo, police guns halted attacks on two U.S. company offices, wounding...