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...appreciated your interesting Nov. 10 review of Father James Brodrick's St. Francis Xavier. One sentence, though, might be a bit misleading and a bit uncomplimentary to the Japanese people. After mentioning the permanent successes of Xavier's whirlwind apostolate, your reviewer states: "Other [missionary conquests,] like his great Japanese mission, were later nullified by persecutions and royal decrees...
...quarter-final match, Seixas, despite recurrent attacks of hay fever, whipped young Rosewall in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. Two days later, facing Australia's "Big Fellow," rangy Ken McGregor, Seixas was a whirlwind. Rushing the net behind one of the biggest services in the game, Seixas took just 58 minutes to knock McGregor right off Melbourne's Kooyong courts. Again it was in straight sets...
...recently said (in a headline): "Stevenson appeals to the voters' reason; Eisenhower to their emotions." Writes Germany's Der Spiegel of Stevenson: "A gentleman." Vienna's Socialist Arbeiter-Zeitung summed up Socialist opinion last week when it described Truman's campaign as blowing "like a whirlwind of fresh air through the press, television and statistics...
...sell about $40,000 worth monthly of their cleaner-a compound of cellulose fiber (resembling sawdust) and various cleaning agents which can be rubbed into a rug, then brushed out bringing the dirt with it. After they got the word from Wallace, they hired three fieldmen and in a whirlwind, 21-day tour, set up a nationwide network of salesmen...
...relations with Brazil, Argentina's traditional South American rival, always get correspondingly better. Last week U.S.-Brazilian relations were proceeding famously: on the eve of a state visit by Dean Acheson, a U.S. task force led by the 37,000-ton carrier Oriskany, dazzled Rio in a whirlwind call...