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Bland Explanation. Meantime Reuters gave a bland and cynical explanation for its beat: that its Lisbon office, technically not bound by any Allied restrictions, had merely demonstrated "spontaneous journalistic enterprise." This seemed to be adding insult to injury. Perhaps U.S. news services would take the cue and instruct their Lisbon and other offices to show a little "spontaneous American enterprise" hereafter...
...about 1938. Then two other guys took Mr. Garvey on in bowling and he clicked off a trio of games averaging about 175. Somebody else invited him to play pool one night and he knocked in 13 of the first 15 balls before the other guy could chalk his cue...
...radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked up its English accent...
...starts the entertainment season off with a bang Saturday night at 2000, when the Coast Guard band gives the cue to all members of the Unit and their dates to join in the festivities in the Kirkland House Common Room...
Hurrying to Washington to meet the latest indictment, America's most successful underdog missed no cue. Now, after a lifetime of oppression in Massachusetts, he was being crucified in Washington. Explained Curley, his ruddy, liverish face messianic: "I have . . . refused to be a rubber stamp while serving as a member of Congress. . . . Indictments, threats or pressure of any character shall not deter me from doing what in my judgment is best for the American people...