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...road party which has attracted many a former Nazi, is strongest in the Tyrol. Next come the Social Democrats, including almost all non-Volksparteiler. The Communists, though not considered important, somehov,' managed to have better offices and a better organizational setup than their stronger opponents. The biggest thorn in the Tyrolean toe is the force that shapes their lives, the French occupation troops. They have requisitioned the finest houses, the fastest cars, the most luxurious hotels. Once 35,000 strong, they reduced their total to 10,000, but helped make up the difference by bringing in their wives...
...former thorn in the side of Dick Harlow has just been added to the Crimson football coaching staff; Bill Bingham, director of Athletics, announced this morning the appointment of Henry R. "Hank" Margarita as assistant football coach...
...wrote George Bernard Shaw, 89, of Artist George Fredric Watts, who would be 137 if alive today. Last week a British biography of Watts arrived in the U.S. (The Laurel and the Thorn, by Ronald Chapman). Along with it came a Shavian review in the London Sunday Observer. The book proved that it took six women to give frail, flowing-haired Painter Watts the feather bed existence his art required. Shaw's review proved that one of the six, auburn-haired actress Ellen Terry, means a lot more to 89-year-old Shaw-even today-than she ever...
...President's fact-finding panel went a company statement carefully drawn up by Lawyer Walter Gordon Merritt, long a thorn in labor's side.* His argument: 1) no fact-finding board could do more than guess at a company's ability to pay wages in the future; 2) ability to pay was not a proper standard anyway, since it could only result in forcing some industries or companies to accept "a super-wage" higher than its competitors were paying...
Rockefeller's resignation, announced the next day (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was no better news. His successor, Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, had been the thorniest thorn in the side of Peron & Co. Said he on taking over his new job: "My policy respecting Argentine and U.S. relations will not alter in the slightest. On the contrary, the larger opportunities of my new post will make my efforts even more effective...