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...middle of April and the second week in October are in for nightmares and nervous indigestion. That was last week's expert consensus. Under prevailing 4-F conditions, the probabilities were that the teams in both leagues would be more evenly matched than last year or the year before-and uniformly awful. Details...
...TIME, Oct. 4), Secretary Carlotta Monti announced she would sue Funnyman W, C. Fields for $200,000. Said Secretary Monti's lawyer: "She will accuse Fields of breaking a walking stick over her head and belaboring her with a rubber hammer." Snorted Funnyman Fields: "I've been sued before-and by experts...
...that Biographer Whitlock has written has been written before-and often. That no living figure emerges from 927 pages is due, not alone to a gullible reliance on the smooth, hard surface of La Fayette's memoirs, but to the Whitlock intentions and method: "I have tried to look through his eyes at the men he knew and events. ... I have not made up any conversations or rearranged any events with an eye to dramatic effect." Biographer Whitlock's eclectic synthesis, whatever it may do to the real La Fayette, emphasizes the not very astonishing fact that...