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...expect that a boner like that could get by TIME'S 44 editorial researchers, 32 contributing editors, 12 associate editors and 9 senior editors, just to mention a few. How about getting a good world atlas for the National Affairs Department? FRED R. SALCER The Bronx...
...attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...
...Boner. In Vancouver, Wash., Leon Hutcheson, in bed with a broken leg, tried to move it, placed his good leg under the heavy cast, used it as a lever, broke...
Wave of Indecision. In Washington, Lieut. Commander Bernice Boner decided to end it all, jumped from a 90-ft. Potomac bridge, changed her mind in midair, was glad she could swim so well...