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...professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn son in a sequence that touches the strings of love and charity, and a less happy episode that requires the priest, the mayor and an old Fascist enemy each to down a ritual glass of castor...
...Frank was a law student, he went on a double date with a lawyer friend, spent the evening making calf's eyes at his friend's date, pretty Jane Sheal. After seven years of courtship and engagement, they were married by an Episcopal minister because Jane, a "stubborn Methodist" by her own description, refused to be married in the rites of the Catholic Church. Although Frank was automatically barred by his marriage from receiving the sacraments of his church, Ma Lausche, a devout Catholic, proudly welcomed her daughter-in-law into the family with a bouquet...
...years when Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's personnel manager, he helped his boss build up a hierarchy of young technocrat-commissars. To get his men into key jobs, Malenkov had to shove out many a stubborn old Bolshevik. At the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, where old-line Commissar Ordzhonikidze gave notice that he would resist purging, Malenkov quietly put in his own security chief. The new man quickly turned over the commissariat's personnel files to the NKVD (central secret police), thus putting them in a position to purge most of Ordzhonikidze's engineers...
...policy, doughty Ezra Benson emerged last week with a plan for shrinking overproduction. His plan would keep flexible price supports but would go beyond them by paying farmers to switch from surplus-making crops to soil-building grass and trees. Apart from its agricultural soundness, which came first with stubborn Ezra Benson, the "soil-bank" proposal looked like a political convincer. It was not a new plan; the New Deal put a similar scheme into effect from 1936 to " 1943. But coming from Benson, it was evidence that the Secretary's inflexible opposition to inflexible price supports was no satanic...
...straight game, 20-13. ¶ Still riding high after its victory over Michigan, Illinois was tripped up by the Northwestern Wildcats, who have yet to win a game this season, and eked out a disappointing 7-7 tie. ¶ Unbeaten Maryland kept its record clean by holding off a stubborn George Washington team, 19-0. Meanwhile, Oklahoma, which will meet Maryland in the Orange Bowl, kept its own record clean by whipping Nebraska...