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...Sizzler. Into this delicate situation Charlie Wilson thrust his heavy thumb, outraging Senators of both parties by impugning the motives and dignity of the august U.S. Senate. Democrat after Democrat arose to denounce Wilson; several of them demanded his immediate resignation. Republicans for the most part sat in embarrassed silence...
...profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually 16 ft. by 18 ft. in size, but the log cabin Lincoln grew up in was meaner than some slave quarters...
Simourian will succeed Kenneth Rossano '56 of Kirkland and East Meadow. Rossano, a right-handed pitcher, is probably out for the season with a broken left thumb...
...Haven in May, but Kessler's tricky southpaw slants baffled the Elis. Kessler, who edged Amherst 3 to 2 last Saturday, will be seeking his third win in a week, after beating Boston College last Wednesday. With Captain Ken Rossano probably out for the season with a broken thumb on his glove hand, senior Kessler figures to hurl the Crimson's last two games as well, against Yale today and Monday...
Henri, hero of The Mandarins, is a writer and newspaper editor who is under Robert's intellectual thumb. His chief problem: how to keep his struggling paper out of the hands of both capitalists and Communists. Most of his crowd is bitterly anti-U.S., strongly pro-Russian. But Henri is also a man of conscience. When he learns about the Russian forced-labor camps, he becomes uneasy, and almost breaks with Robert. While all this ideological clatter goes on, archaically reminiscent of Manhattan's literary climate in the '30s, Anne goes off to the U.S. (Simone...