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...chambers high in Manhattan's federal courthouse one morning last week, Judge Harold R. Medina paused for a minute before donning his robes and descending to a courtroom seven floors below. "Holy cats!" he said. "This is the damnedest case I've ever seen." The "damnedest case" is the Government's suit against 17 investment banking firms, charged with monopolizing the sale of $42.5 billion in security issues from 1935 to 1949 (TIME...
...Senators kept at it for almost two hours but never managed to pin Lawson down. Finally they let him go with an order to come back later with his account books. Educator Lawson hopped out of his chair and headed for the door. "The damnedest thing I've ever heard of in all my life," he snorted. Said Senator Moody: "I don't know whether we're talking about the same thing, but I'm inclined to agree with...
...three restaurants, a barber and a beauty shop. Visitors (among them Errol Flynn) and customers, spending a relaxed Saturday evening at Konomi's Hot Springs, thought nothing of getting a bill of $100 or more. It was, in short, as one well-scrubbed G.I. said last week, "the damnedest bath I ever had in my life...
...grab-bag Derby this year," said Bill Corum. president of Churchill Downs. Jockey Eddie Arcaro agreed: "I wouldn't be surprised if any one of 15 horses wins it." Added Greentree Stables' Trainer John Gaver: "This will be the damnedest rat race of all time...
...United States Senate today," he cried indignantly, "has fought the Truman crowd more than Charles W. Tobey . . . Down in Washington they have the damnedest, or damnable, crew of rascals." Next week, after Primary Day, Charles Tobey would learn whether the voters still wanted him to mingle again with all the damnable rascals...