Word: bloopers
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...acrobatic, circus saves with astonishing skill; at shortstop Alvin Dark, a hard-looking old pro out of Louisiana State, knocked down everything that came his way. Slowly, with infuriating care, young Johnny Antonelli pitched around the thin edge of disaster. In the fifth, Pinch Hitter Rhodes sneaked a piddling blooper into short centerfield and the game was as good as over...
...Spoke at the Washington convention of the Military Chaplains Association, and pulled a blooper in patriotic etiquette. When the Marine Band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the President and the chaplains to his left faced the music; the chaplains to his right faced the American flag. The President & friends were wrong: Public Law 829 stipulates that it is always proper to face the flag, if one is displayed, during the playing of the anthem...
...House had applauded his statement that there is no room in the Commonwealth for a Communist state, but the Socialists questioned his wisdom in suspending the tiny colony's six-months-old constitution. They muffed their case badly: James Chuter Ede, onetime Laborite Home Secretary, made a memorable blooper by referring to Guiana as an "island...
...rewards he expected. The day after Harry Truman's victory in the 1948 election, Kip's Changing Times was in the mail with a cover story entitled "What Will Dewey Do?" and blaring its "beat" in full-page ads (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.). This massive blooper sent the circulation of all the Kiplinger publications plummeting. With characteristic candor, Kip admitted that "I made the mistake." With equally characteristic vigor (staffers estimate that he works as much as 70 or 80 hours a week), Kip set out to repair the damage. Today a new, ten-story office...
...everyone knew, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had made one major blooper: in 1946 it appointed Alger Hiss to be its president. But, argued Trustee John W. Davis,* onetime Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency, Hiss had come with the highest recommendations. One of his chief sponsors was Chairman John Foster Dulles, and not a single member of the board could see anything wrong with Hiss's record. Had he ever shown a bias in favor of the Soviet Union while in office? Replied Davis flatly: "Not the slightest...