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...gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning...
Three Little Words. Right up to the early hours of Wednesday, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune stubbornly carried the banner headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Below it, the Trib's veteran Washington bureau chief, Arthur Sears Henning, wrote placidly that "Dewey and Warren won a sweeping victory in the presidential election yesterday ... by an overwhelming majority of electoral votes." When Harry Truman got a copy, he chuckled: "That's one for the books...
...back. After a short, sharp battle they were in full control. The hundred or so cops who surrendered were lined up against the wall of the police compound and riddled. Then the rebels, joined by part of the citizenry, paraded through the city under North Korea's Communist banner, singing "Ten thousand years to the North Korean People's Republic...
While the Big Three banner at present signifies much less than the one-third ratio it bears to the Big Nine title, it still means much more to the white-haired Brahmins (of the age of Brickley, Mahan, and Horween, to mention a few) who will in all probability empty wall Street on Saturday in favor of Palmer Stadium...
...Union. But there is plenty of space in which to work, and there will be more at the end of the year when the Union library moves to Lamont. The Committee, together with the older freshman officials, have only to exploit this opportunity, and this year will be a banner one for the Yard...