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...Communist bigwigs sat through ceremonies on the stage of the Bolshoi theater, in front of a color guard that looked strangely like a male chorus line (see cut). In Berlin, meanwhile, the anniversary was marked by an uncommon display of the new Communist sweetness & light-and a prize propaganda boner...
...exception: the chapter on "American Language," in which the gay, strong hand of H. L. Mencken quickly shows itself.) What a reader misses here is what he finds in Vernon Louis Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought: one mind in command of a subject, sometimes pulling a boner but more often arousing excitement and curiosity, and always leaving on the reader the sharp stamp of an individual point of view...
...with "not one but two geniuses-Patton as well as Montgomery . . . [not] an entirely unalloyed blessing." Ike leaves no doubt that he valued them both. He also leaves no doubt that they could, each in his own way, be irritating. Each time Patton made a boner, Blood-and-Guts would come to Ike close to tears, and promise not to do it again. Writes Eisenhower: "His emotional range was very great and he lived at either one end or the other...
Europe's leftist press-and by many other papers. U.S. newsmen in Paris became curious. A quick check showed that some overeager beaver in Moscow had committed a prize boner. The map in question was entitled: "War Map III, featuring the Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
...convention, Pennsylvania had made a celebrated boner by waiting too long to hop on the Willkie bandwagon, and then having to chase it down the road. Jim Duff was not going to make that mistake this time. Political dopesters in Harrisburg heard that arrangements had been made for Alabama to yield to Pennsylvania on the critical ballot. Jim Duff might be the man to swing the convention...