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Time was when baseball was a summer sport, played by young men who could wiggle a finger at the left-field stands without getting a banner line in someone's second section. Those were the good old days. Since then Abner Doubleday's pleasant pastime has been attenuated into an eight-months monster, devouring two-thirds of the year and thousands of tons of newsprint, bleating out paragraphs about the weight of Dick Wakefield's spikes and the quality of the umpiring in the Sally League...
Norman Thomas, a candidate for president in the last five elections under the Socialist banner, will pinpoint foreign policy errors at 8 p.m. Monday in New Lecture Hall...
...suggest that they make up their minds, that they have the courage of their convictions, and that they stop twisting the freedom-of-thought banner...
...reporter. Even after the rumor became an official bulletin, announced by the BBC and newspaper extras, some at first refused to believe it. "After all," argued an indignant Londoner, "Mr. Churchill didn't announce it." "It can't be true," cried an old lady at the black banner headlines on a London news stall. "It can't be true...
Finally, on April 18, 1939, the CRIMSON opened the attack that was to drive the cram parlors out of the Square. A banner headline announced...