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Balance is the word for the Bruins. Their second line, almost as good as the Krauts, has Centre Bill Cowley, at week's end the league's leading scorer (15 goals, 44 assists). Their third line is not to be sneezed at. Neither is Defense Man Dit Clapper, sole remaining star of the Bruins' championship 1929 team, who has a better than even chance to end up the season with the league's Hart (most valuable player) trophy. Only native American on the team is Goalie Frank ("Kid Zero") Brimsek, of Eveleth, Minn...
...pressures; the general objectivity of the press-all these seemed to be examples of what campaigners have called the American way of doing things, a slow way, inefficient by totalitarian standards, but in which no individual's rights are lost. Said Scripps-Howard's Columnist Ray Clapper: "Doing it the slower way means that when the Lend-Lease Bill is passed it will stand as the deliberate and considerate action of Congress, taken after full and fair hearing had been given to the opposition. No one can say he was gagged...
...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
...issue had come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
Whether or not Willkie's listeners, like Clapper, began to see what he was driving at, he kept on driving. For the home stretch he mapped a killing itinerary. Before the campaign's end he would cross and crisscross the vital regions, smashing more & more boldly into Democratic citadels, ending with a bombardment of New York City...