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...Thirteen floors below the Hiss trial, 11 Communists made life no easier for those seeking answers. Did or did not the hedging testimony of the Party leaders mean that they were advocating revolution? And was the Smith Act constitutional? Tough questions, and they seemed tougher still in a court of law surrounded by pickets and counter-pickets...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed Trevelyan to Acton's old Cambridge professorship. By that time, Trevelyan was married (to the daughter of Mrs. Humphry Ward, novelist niece of Matthew Arnold), had became famous as a historian himself. Thirteen years later, Winston Churchill made him Master of Trinity College. There he reigns, the "Grand Old Man" of Trinity Lodge...
Earlier in the week Tito had incited the peoples of Bulgaria and Albania against their Cominform rulers. "I think the time will come when we will help them to remove all obstacles which individuals have placed in the way of our fraternal relations." Thirteen months after Tito had been denounced by Moscow's Cominform as a Trotskyite traitor, he was still going strong. Western observers were beginning to believe that Stalin could not afford much longer to ignore Tito's dare...
Keep Fighting. Thus last week a cowardly attack was repeated in Detroit almost to the last detail. Thirteen months before, an assassin had fired a shotgun through a kitchen window in the home of Vic's elder brother Walter, and shot down the cocky, redheaded president of U.A.W. Walter Reuther's right arm is still crippled from the blast that...
...Thirteen Crimson hits and ten walks from four Exeter pitchers gave the Yardlings six runs in the first three innings, seven in the fourth, and the four more in the sixth and seventh. The Red and Gray committed five errors...