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...yard free style relay his freshmen swam into the Crimson records last year. But it is always pride over what they did and when they won, how they won. When his charges lose, Brooks whispers sorrowfully in your ear. "They tried awful hard, they tried their darndest, but we lost." In losing, it's always...
...page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced a new gimmick: a telephone-quiz contest for the salesmen's wives on how their husbands are doing...
...civilian industry in procurement of basic materials was being wadded up and thrown in the wastebasket. The Administration, said Dwight Eisenhower, will step back in with controls only if that becomes vitally necessary. Natural economic laws will be given, in the words of Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, "the darndest whirl" in 20 years...
...Circus Saints and Sinners monthly luncheon gag-fest in Manhattan, Vice President Alben Berkley cheerfully put on a cap & gown and gracefully accepted a few new "honorary" degrees, including a P.H.D. (for Poor Honest Democrat), a B.S. (for Bourbon & Soda), a D.D.T. (for Doing the Darndest for Truman...
...about any hint that they are not as good or as great as they think they are. A foreigner who has been watching Pakistan since its inception commented: 'They have pride but sometimes a little too much pride. They're forever stubbing their toes. They try their darndest to be humble, but they can only be humble for a couple of minutes...