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...notes lay before him; his hearing aid was in place. As he offered the government motion, approving Britain's 1955 Defense estimates, his voice, gathering strength, carried the familiar lisping growl to every corner of the chamber. Churchill plunged into his subject by slapping the sides of the dispatch...
...public relations. The principle is that if you keep on saying your service is magnificent, the sucker will believe you against the testimony of experience. The millions of dollars spent on the traveler's credulity would be better spent getting him where he wants to go with reasonable dispatch...
...Duff does not think much of U.S. hangmanship. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, the U.S. executioner at the Nürnberg war-crimes trials, was accused of bungling the job. "Wherever I look among accounts of American hangings," writes Duff, "I find something to indicate a certain lack of dispatch. Yet there is one great comfort: America's hanged die as certainly as England...
...campaign by Light Heavyweight champion Archie Moore for a crack at Rocky Mareiano's heavyweight crown took the form today of a want ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch personal column, asking "information" on how to get the fight...
...April 1953 a Federal grand jury, spurred on by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose of labor racketeering, indicted Dale and Bateman and 13 other A.F.L...