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...possibility of Chip Gannon's emerging as a tripe-threat back developed after the Chipper had gotten off some long, rainbow boots in the kicking practice. Noonan, Moffie, and Leo Flynn shared the passing chores, and when Soldiers Field finally blacked out, the squad moved under the floodlights for signal drills...
Ruddy and chipper, Bill Green arrived at Chicago's Drake Hotel one day last week for a meeting of the A.F.L.'s 15-man executive council. He was almost cocky as he talked to newsmen. He told them he would recommend that the A.F.L.'s officers get into step with the new National Labor Relations Board and sign the non-Communist affidavit, which is a prime proviso of the Taft-Hartley Act. He was sure that the other 14 members on the council felt the same...
...expensive speaker," warned New York City's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a letter to Milwaukee's Town Hall. He sounded pretty chipper for a man who had just had a serious operation for chronic pancreatitis (in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital). "I want $1,000. For that money you can get a lot of better speakers. If you still want me, sign here." Milwaukee signed...
...wire services to find out what had become of "Heiress" Virginia Hill, in whose house Bugsy was murdered. They finally reached her in Paris for her opinions. Sample: "It looks so bad to have a thing like that happen in your house." The United Press found her looking pretty chipper, with a new French boy friend and a pair of silver slippers. But Hearst's I.N.S. had her afloat in tears of grief. Both apparently neglected to ask Virginia how Bugsy happened to have a golden key to her house...
...read of Russians "as chipper as chipmunks," of neat houses "with lace curtains, begonias and geraniums in the windows," to nave anyone compare the "wonderful, hardworking" Russians with the "free-&-easy, friendly Midwesterners" of Mark Twain's books, is indeed refreshing...