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Coach Bruce Munro is distressingly blunt about the Crimson's chances: "If Thomas plays," he says, "it'll be a game; if not--well, that's that...
Straight was solidly backed by BOAC's chairman, Sir Miles Thomas, 55, a production man who had made his name at Lord Nuffield's Morris Motors, Ltd. An aggressive salesman, Sir Miles, unlike blunt, outspoken Straight, was also able to maintain smooth relations with Whitehall and keep Parliament off Straight's back...
...When I had finished the article, I felt it was a pity Gertrude Stein did not use a blunt instrument when she hit him on the head...
...thing or two about wartime Washington. After two years on Franklin Roosevelt's mobilization staff, he was wise to the perils of palace politics and political hatchet work. But in Harry Truman's Washington he was soon completely at sea in leaderless confusion. Last week, in a blunt letter to the President (written the day before Truman bowed out as a candidate), Charlie Wilson abruptly quit...
Truculent. Blunt, taciturn Chess Master Reshevsky had outraged his Cuban hosts by his point-blank refusal to join the other players in a Friday visit to the tomb of Cuban World Champion José Capablanca. Reshevsky later explained that he could not make the trip on Friday, since his Jewish religion forbids public travel after sundown. But he also demanded that the player's day off should be Friday, not Sunday. Furthermore, Reshevsky refused, up to the final day, to agree to leave the winner's trophy in Cuba. Originally donated by Argentina, the cup had been renamed...