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Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
...last year's 44-college meet at Franklin Field. Michigan State was second and the Crimson and Penn State tied for third. Varsity javelin thrower Don Thimble won his event and will be back on the firing line this spring. Trimble, along with weightman Sam Felton, loom as definite Olympic possibilities...
Even Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko got into the act. Said he, twinkling like a Russian tea-tray: "Some attribute [the 'saucers'] to the British for exporting too much of their Scotch whiskey into the United States; some say it is a Russian discus thrower training for the Olympic games who does not realize his own strength...
...National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships last week at Lincoln Neb., he ran up to the mark and heaved his steel-tipped spear into the air. It plunged into the turf shy of the blue flag which marked the world-record distance (258 ft., 2⅛ in.). The thrower, a curly-haired osteopath from Los Angeles named Steve Seymour, 26, had set a new U.S. record...
...implications, but it doesn't affect the quality of the work either way. "Girl in a Blue Mood," by Arthur E. Cooper, is a light narrative that certainly has no implications. Its tone, though a trifle forced, is sustained right through this delightful little piece of writing. "The Javelin-Thrower," by H. Lawrence Osgood, is below the standards of the rest of the magazine. Its "meaning" is abstruse and not worth troubling about, and the story was hardly worth printing either for the sake of quality or variety...