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...favorably mentions the University of Chicago, where Pete played football under Alonzo Stagg-before Dr. Robert M. Hutchins took Chicago out of the Big Ten. Pete's wife wasn't too upset because, as she wrote, "I sat out too many games in pouring rain and wrung water from my purple velvet hat in our courting days...
...second fad swept through Japan. Stealthy marimo-kapparai (marimo snatchers) haunted Lake Akan, diving into the water at night to kidnap the helpless creatures. Marimo smugglers brought them to Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, and Japanese tourists bought them furtively, paying up to $50. Biologists and nature lovers wrung their hands in anguish, but nothing effective was done. The little pets from Lake Akan were snatched almost to extinction...
...East Berlin's landing field, Puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl wrung Khrushchev's hand and anxiously inquired where the East German regime stood. Grotewohl had been alarmed by the Soviet invitation to Adenauer; he feared to be sacrificed in a Kremlin deal with Bonn. Khrushchev propped the puppets up, at least temporarily. "The score is one to nothing in favor of the [East German] Republic," he told Grotewohl...
...C.I.O. United Automobile Workers (U.A.W.); he has signed up 250,000 new workers in the last four years. Last week he achieved a triumph and a great victory for labor, winning from Ford Motor Co. a form of guaranteed semiannual wage for laid-off workers. This week he wrung similar terms from General Motors, the world's greatest manufacturing corporation...
Muttered Peter uneasily: "We have no money at all." Japan's Emperor Hirohito greeted the New Year with his traditional annual poem, which as usual had the lilt wrung out of it in translation. The royal quat rain: "Stout are the hearts/Of men who toil/At their honest calling/Enduring heat and cold." Cinemactress Ava Gardner, a restless siren who has spent the past month roving the world and attending national premieres of her latest movie, The Barefoot Contessa, popped up in Stockholm. She wore shoes to a party in her honor, pursed her moist lips prettily to get a kiss...