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...Because he is the best bunter in the game, the Dodgers "cut him loose" at the plate (i.e., let him decide for himself whether to take, hit or bunt). He and Pete Reiser are also the only Dodgers good enough to be "cut loose" on the bases, allowed to steal without waiting for a signal...
...leaving children alone." Summerhill is Britain's most progressive school. At his school ("That dreadful School," he likes to call it), there is no discipline, except for such rules as the children lay down in their weekly meetings. The children are permitted to swear, steal, smash things up, masturbate, lie, play hookey or do anything else that, in Schoolmaster Neill's judgment, will rid them of inhibitions. At Summerhill, "inhibitions" are a prime preoccupation. Discipline, Neill believes, is "a substitute for a knowledge of children...
...there will be more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
...prospect had Mexican Movie Actress Maria Felix biting her nails. She was afraid that in her new picture, Rio Escondido, a bit-player would steal the show. The bit-player: President Miguel Alemán, playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint...
Gardeners, Miners, Vintners. In the hot July sun, people tend the little vegetable gardens from which other people steal by night, and gardeners and thieves both act from the same motive-to store food against the awful winter ahead. In Bavaria, a famous movie actor who played leading roles in Nazi anti-Semitic films, is cleared by a denazification board, and before another Spruchkammer in the U.S. zone appears a former high official of the late Ribbentrop's Foreign Office, likewise to walk away a free...