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When affronted Reporter Gidwani suggested that Kashmir's future was a "very important question," McCormick disagreed. "American people," said he, "generally are not interested in happenings in countries very far from their own." Snapped Sorab Patell, reporter for Bombay's sensational tabloid weekly Blitz: "Are you interested in anything but yourself?" Barked Bertie: "An impudent question . . . What do you know about Alaska?" (Next day the Times of India pointedly printed a story about Alaska...
...world came fairly close to suicide in World War II. During the London blitz, Eliot spent two nights a week as a fire-watcher on the roof of his office building. From his perch above what he has often called the "unreal city," Eliot observed, with terror and compassion, the relentless fires. Had London's people (and with them, Western civilization) gone down then, Eliot's verse would have served as a magnificent and tender epitaph...
When shrewd, peppery President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla made up his mind last month that Chile must devalue the peso, he knew he would have to blitz his country into going along with him. He promptly set out on a fire-eating tour of the country, in which he made faces at all his political enemies-and scarcely mentioned the peso...
...starting lineup: Dick Lionette, le; Bob Stargle, lt; Don Weber, lg; Buddy Lemay, c; Hank Toepke, rg; John Nichols, rt; Stan Britton, re; Hardy Cox, qb; John Ederer and Pete Dillingham, lh; Gill O'Neil, rh; and Jerry Blitz...
...Yardlings got over this customary freshman problem in convincing fashion Saturday. Lamar admitted that backs Pete Dillingham, Jerry Blitz (two touchdowns), and John Ederer (one score, and linemen Hank Toopke and Arnie Horween, (both filling in on short notice for Bob Stargle, left behind in Stillman), had played good games...