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Captain Dale Armstrong was chosen as an All-East end last fall, primarily for his defensive ability, although last week he caught six passes against Colgate. He may well throw the wrench into Art Valpey's well-oiled ground machine...
...techniques employed in the mass production of goods to the study of those fundamental phenomena which are the wellsprings out of which man's mastery of his environment flows. We have failed to see the great difference between physical and intellectual production. Are we becoming nut tighteners and wrench wielders . . . strait-jacketed . . . within narrow disciplines...
...while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned on hundreds of hydrants...
There have usually been hidden wells of sentiment in Mr. Cain's characters. Even in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Frank, though handy enough at murder with a wrench, sometimes thought about God while in swimming. The Moth gets its title from the fluttering blue-green Luna moth that Jack Dillon falls in love with as a little boy and ever after remembers at beautiful moments...
Marine Fireworks. Candidate Douglas has none too happy a reputation with party workers. As a rebellious and reform bent city alderman, he had thrown many a prewar monkey wrench into the Kelly-Nash machine. He had been badly beaten in the 1942 senatorial primary. Then (while his wife, Emily Taft Douglas, guarded the family political fortunes by serving a term in Congress), he had gone off to fight as a private in the Marines. Twice wounded, he came home a hero and a lieutenant colonel...