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...looked. Since the successful truce negotiations last spring, more & more Nationalist leaders, including some moderates, had reached the conclusion that a deal with the Communists would be futile because they could not be trusted. What, Nanking asked, would be the point of a coalition in which the Communists still clung to their semi-underground military position as a means of extorting more concessions from the Kuomintang...
Aging Ed Kelly still clung to Chicago's top political spot. The deal left him the city patronage. But shrewd, suave Jake Arvey will run everything else. A new era had quietly begun in Chicago's tough, corrupt politics. Not necessarily a better...
...Philly days, every time they dug up a promising ballplayer he was sold (there were always bills to pay). Now the Phillies clung happily to a 21-year-old, Philadelphia-born rookie named Del Ennis, who was hitting .315 and was one of the season's likeliest new players. The real hero of the team was sparkplug Second Baseman Emil Verban. He got mad when the St. Louis Cardinals sold him down the river to the Phillies two months ago for $40,000. He promptly began doing things around second base he never suspected he could do-especially when...
Bell-Ringer. One of the best city editors in the business, Reutlinger has clung to his spot for a dozen years, while a dozen managing editors have come & gone. (His standard, deadpan approach to a new Hearst-appointed managing editor: "If you don't want me to work for you, just let me know and I'll make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came...
...Hume's account of his years in China, which won the $3,500 Norton Medical Award for 1946, is sketchy and unpretentious, but full of anecdote and East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened...