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...Drew Pearson's day-after-election column: "I surveyed the close-knit group around Tom Dewey, who will take over the White House 79 days from now. Here is the line...
...Princeton residents consider the Institute for Advanced Study "that place where Einstein thinks." It is the truth, but not the whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...
...Baseball, What Is That?" San Francisco, where Joe grew up, is still the city he knows best. He comes from an old-fashioned Italian family, poor to begin with, but proud of each other and extremely close-knit. His parents, who had come from Isola delle Femmine, an islet off the coast of Sicily, had a ground-floor flat on Taylor Street, on the slope of Russian Hill. Joe was the eighth of nine children...
...York," he says, "God did much for Rio." He chattered with his two sons, Oswaldo Jr., 26, and Euclides, 27, and his daughter Delminda, 24. He dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast Aranha drove over to the Jockey Club, watched his three-year-old Itororó win a $2,000 race, and got another ovation...
...forced back by the Japanese, Chiang gave old friend Chang the job of getting remote Szechwan province under control, in preparation for moving the capital to Chungking. He made Chang, himself a Szechwanese, the governor. But the close-knit Szechwan old guard refused to accept Chang. Thereupon the Generalissimo assumed the title of governor himself, worked Chang in as special assistant, and in 1940 slipped out from under, leaving Chang in charge...