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...lights went out; eggs and tomatoes flew. The dark hall rang with women's screams, the thud of chairs wielded in combat, and the scuffle and bump of poetry lovers colliding in midflight. As if to prove that there was more at issue than the quality of the verse, there were cries of "Down with Franco!" Doña Alicia, opening her mouth to call for police, caught a slap squarely in the face...
Into the Forest. The guards never caught on. One reason: the thud of landing vaulters blanketed any vibrations from the digging which might have been picked up by the Germans' detecting devices. One October afternoon the two diggers, with a third man who had helped them, went down into their tunnel, more than 100 feet long. After scrambling out of the tunnel, they rolled into a ditch outside the camp, and then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised...
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When the Los Angeles Times launched its new afternoon tabloid, the Mirror, last October, it hit the newsstands with a dull thud. Readers were baffled by its sideways front page, annoyed by its murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...
...those days, becoming a labor organizer meant going to war. The history of labor in the Northwest was full of the sound of rifle fire, the crash of explosives, and the surrealistic thud of club on skull. The noisiest battles had been set off by the I.W.W. in its invasions of the woods and sawmills. In the celebrated Centralia massacre of 1919, Wobblies shot down four parading American Legionnaires; three years earlier in an equally bloody battle at Everett, Wash, in 1916, gun-toting deputy sheriffs killed or wounded 36 men with I.W.W. cards...