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Needlework or Ball Games. "Lying in a hospital bed," said an A.P. dispatch from Copenhagen, "her long yellow hair curling on a pillow, [she] widened her grey-blue eyes and lifted her hands in a surprised, frightened gesture." One newsman got into her hospital room using a bouquet of flowers as a pass key. Others bombarded her with such questions as "Do you sleep in a nightgown or pajamas?" "Will you ever be a mother?" "Do you still have to shave?" "Are your interests male or female? I mean are you interested in, say, needlework, rather than" a ball game...
...ghastly battle of the South Koreans and Chinese Reds for the strategic ridges north of Kumhwa went into its seventh week. U.S. corps officers and liaison men who had seen it were sick and sad at heart. Said an A.P. dispatch: "Some [U.S. officers] have wept as pitiful remnants of full companies dragged their way back down the shell-blasted slopes of Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. Combat rifle companies are sprinkled heavily now with green replacements...
...point in the campaign, a London Times reporter in the U.S. was filing such obviously slanted pro-Stevenson copy that the paper's editors sent "corrective guidance" to its correspondent. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard printed a dispatch from Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt, headlined I TIP STEVENSON TO WIN, which said that "hysteria about Communism is making a dent in America's claim to call herself a democracy." On election eve, the London Daily Graphic's Frank Oliver cabled his paper: "I believe Governor Stevenson will...
Lahar is not an exponent of the two-platoon system. Captain Main often goes both ways. Simmons, leading offensive halfback, is described in a Colgate press dispatch as one of "the top defensive backs in the East." Although some of his lighter linemen would give way to replacements, Lahar would very likely use a tackle like Tomanek, 220-pound sophomore, for the better part of a game...
Ackerman made his disclosure in a telegram to the St. Louis Post Dispatch Tuesday. He said that he and others had "been urged to remain silent in order that the name of the university should not be brought into the campaign...