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Even if the watcher cared not a whit for football atmosphere, he still probably wouldn't have a very good time. Last Saturday during a particularly thrilling series of plays in which Princeton moved threateningly into Navy territory, the screen blanked out. Later the audience was told the power at Annapolis had temporarily failed but by the time the theatre received the image again, the ball had gone over to Navy and nobody in the theatre was quite sure...
...regarded himself as a U.S. ally. His subordinates predicted that Argentina's behavior at this month's Washington conference of American foreign ministers will prove that he is. But by week's end, the anti-U.S. line of the Peronista press had changed not a whit. The screw was turned yet tighter on La Prensa...
...whit abashed by such rebuffs, Little Orvie threatened to sue anyone who signed a petition against him. But beyond that, Orvie betrayed little anxiety, even though the recall movement had been touched off by one of his own awful political blunders. He had jealously refused to let the Ford Motor Co. (which employs a fourth of Dearborn's population) donate a $4,500,000 hospital to the city presumably because Ford had insisted on making its gift through the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund instead of letting Little Orvie handle matters directly...
...brass rulings that offended their habits and sense of custom. "Halt, wha's that?" snapped a sentry one night. "Come, come," said the approaching officer, "that's no way to challenge. Ask me the password." "This is nae time for your bloody kiddin'," snapped the sentry. "Whit's your bloody name...
...hour and 15 minutes, as 800 spectators cheered, applauded and booed, the two newsmen boldly stood up for the rights of a free press. They refused to retreat one whit. In the face of the Item's firm stand, plus editorials in other newspapers unanimously rebuking the legislators for their attitude, the committee backed down, voted to forget about prosecution of Editor Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never...