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...quite ready to be counted out. Summoning his last reserve of calm (a rival pro says that if Nelson gave anyone a blood transfusion, the beneficiary would come down with pneumonia), the champ shot a birdie and took the 33rd hole. Another birdie evened the match on the 34th. An eagle 3 on the 475-yd. 35th edged Turnesa's birdie. Nelson coasted in by halving the 36th with...
...square miles in three weeks. German prisoners complained: "Don't you Americans ever sleep?" In September, alongside the 36th (a National Guard division from Texas), the 45th landed at Salerno to begin one of the war's most grueling campaigns. Another National Guard division, the 34th (from Iowa and Minnesota), helped hold that beachhead...
There was good news for U.S. shoppers last week. When some 2,000 merchants squeezed into Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania for the 34th annual conference of the National Retail Dry Goods Association last week, they agreed that there would be no critical shortages this year on dry goods dealers' shelves. But they were quick to add that customers would not be able to get exactly what they wanted, exactly when they wanted it; the war was still on. Drygoodsmen, by consensus...
...Slaveowners." Two days after the phone call. Caesar Petrillo sat in another of his offices, this time on the 34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed it as a "grand statement" that showed "American sportsmanship." Not till 3 a.m. did the cautious, homespun man who will be the 34th Vice President feel confident enough...