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McCarthy reacted just like his own victims and immediately denied all-in one burst of inspired naivete, he said he didn't even "play craps." Next day, Byers corrected his story a little: McCarthy, after being behind $5,500, had made the last throw "double or nothing" and won. This seemed to clear Joe of welshing, except that Joe was still sticking to his story that he hadn't shot craps...
...Dream. Before and during the last war, we were very much concerned with the danger of what was called "the balance of power." We were determined to avoid the balance of power and so went in for another formula. We wanted a universal, all-in system of security, a system of universality and of idealism, and we followed it in the League of Nations. But we fell into the opposite danger. This war has taught us not only that idealism is not enough and that universality is not the solution for our security problem, but it has also taught...
...least 50 musicians of the 20th Century have earned a million dollars or more in the course of their careers. So reported Variety last week. Tops of them all-in fact, the greatest musical earner of all times-is the late great Polish pianist, Ignace Jan Paderewski, whose money-making record embraces three firsts: 1) grandest grand total: close to $5,000,000; 2) biggest single season's earnings: $500,000 (for 1922-23); 3) alltime record for a single concert: $33,000 (in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden). Only two other pianists, Rachmaninoff and Hofmann, have topped...
...biographies of local boys on the cruiser Houston. Most editors had thought themselves lucky to be able to identify the Houston's Commander. How had Editor Shaw got his list of the cruiser's personnel? How picked out the Clevelanders? And, above all, how rounded up photographs of all-in uniform to boot...
...body and its attitude to the war is political, and not merely moral or ethical." He intimated the possible "self-effacement" of Mahatma Gandhi, whom, of course, no one thinks of asking to divorce his ethics from his politics. "India," Pandit Nehru went on, "is prepared to go for an all-in aid in the war, if her political aspirations are satisfied...