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...When a member of the audience told Dr. Douglas Armour Thorn of Boston that in the U.S. "idle young people . . . exhaust nervous energies in the Boy Scouts and Y.M.C.A.," Dr. Thorn replied cryptically: "The American people have succumbed to a fatuous dependence on the cheerleader. . . . Our leaders lack the vision given to leaders in the totalitarian states which enables them to appreciate the vast magnitude of these [psychiatric] problems...
Singles--Cutler (Y) defeated Jenkins 6-2, 6-4, Freedman (Y) defeated Lyell 6-3, 6-4, 7-5; Stockler (Y) defeated Peabody 7-5, 6-3; Wilson (H) defeated Spaulding 6-2, 6-1; Thorn (Y) defeated Ellis 6-2, 6-1; Gould (H) defeatd Ethridge...
...lion's paw drew its thin line across Libya, across Ethiopia, across Albania. But when Benito Mussolini tried to make his mark in Greece, the paw began picking up thorns-until by last week Il Duce was badly in need of his Androcles, Adolf Hitler. The biggest thorn, the one which hurt even more than Libya, was being pressed home by the British in Ethiopia (see map). The seizure of Ethiopia in 1936 was what made Italy an "Empire...
Both victories came over Princeton, a team which has been a continual thorn in the side for Harvard all year. The Tigers, on the other hand, have taken the measure of the Crimson twice in the only two meetings of the two teams...
...tail-coated plenipotentiary with a title, Pierson was just the man to give ceremonial lustre to Jesse Jones's deals. Nowhere was this lustre more useful than in Argentina, No. 1 thorn in the Good Neighbor Policy's side...