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...brunt of mistakes other than our own. But that has all changed. We now feel privileged to have been conceived in a period when we can not only watch, but take an integral part in, the awakening of a great democracy. Like the painful mass reactions of a newborn babe, the movements of our democracy are quick and wasteful, but we students are doing everything we can to speed and direct our country so that it may beat "that damned Hitler," as we call...
...British Army equivalent of "Hiya, Babe?", heard as often on Piccadilly as it is on side streets: "Turned out nice again...
...They had become friends five years before, when wisecracking, dandified, vote-getting Mayor Walker was giving New York City the kind of musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were brave days...
...sportswriters who had been "giving him the bird." He raffled off houses and automobiles, had canaries singing in the grand stands. When the New York Yankees went to Chattanooga to play a pre-season exhibition game with his Lookouts, Engel dug up a girl pitcher who struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig...
Like most superathletes, Terrible Tommy is always on the spot. Just as baseball fans expected Babe Ruth to hit a home run every time he went to bat and fight fans expect Joe Louis to knock out every opponent in one minute flat, football fans want Harmon to run 95 yards at least once in every game. In Michigan's first game of the season (against California), Harmon ran back the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown, wriggled 72 yards for another, 86 for a third. Against Michigan State and Harvard he was less spectacular...