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...going to do now, if only to get into the big leagues. The policy of this paper, so invariably sound, fell prey to an error that has on occasion snared such august journals as the New York Times or the Yale Daily News; it became a false Cassandra...
...Cassandra-like prophecies proved right again Saturday night. Plummeting from the basketball Zenith that eluded it by so slim a margin in Tuesday's Columbia overtime heart stopper. Bill Barclay's up-and-down-again team dropped a disappointing 57 to 45 decision in Cornell's Barton Hall...
...their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
...been expedient, when the Labor Government was frittering away the U.S. loan, to minimize Sir Stafford Cripps's cries of trouble ahead by calling him Cassandra. But Sir Stafford had known the score all along, and in the gloom of crisis last week, it was Cassandra who had to stand up and announce the score to the British people. It was a grim score...
...tabloid Daily Mirror, "Cassandra" (William Connor), whose outspoken column almost got the paper suppressed for baiting the Churchill government four years ago, was back at his old stand. A rash of new bylines and comic strips broke out all over, and Londoners at long last could have more than a snifter of sports news...