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After attending his last Cabinet meeting, Banker Crowley admitted that he would attend no more Anglo-American talks. Of the President, he said: "We have always seen eye to eye." Then he strode off, a little stiffly, to devote himself to his job as Board Chairman of Standard Gas & Electric at a reported salary of $75,000 a year...
...Hank Greenberg rubbed a lucky piece of bone on his bat, strode thoughtfully to the plate, and slammed a grand-slam homer into the left field bleachers. That did it: Hank's 13th home run (in 78 games since his Army discharge) finally clinched the American League pennant for the Detroit Tigers, on the last day of the season. The 6-to-3 win over the St. Louis Browns was No. 25 for Lefty Hal Newhouser, who had relieved fast-bailer Virgil ("Fire") Trucks, fresh out of Navy blues...
...small, oak-paneled room of London's Old Bailey, the chief criminal court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
...provided. On Corcovado's peak, while the crowd waited an hour for Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...
Conservative, Communist. Socialist and Radical Party leaders, arms linked, strode together in the crowd's vanguard. Young students and elderly aristocrats, Army and Navy officers in mufti, even women had broken through social and professional barriers to demonstrate their common disgust with Colonel Perón and his heavy-handed military dictatorship...