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...winner you must judge yourself by only one criterion--did you do what was necessary to bring home the win; did you get it done? If getting it done means taking on the other squad singlehanded or performing some superhuman feat, than that is what you must require yourself to do. Anything less isn't enough...
That would be an impressive feat, considering that the Trib will miss most of New York's crucial fourth-quarter advertising season this year, and that the city's three dailies are fighting harder than ever among themselves for readers and advertisers. Saffir is not cowed by the competition. The morning News (circ. 2 million) and the afternoon Post (circ. 609,000), he says, are the "Chinese restaurants of journalism-an hour after you read them you're still hungry." As for the newly restyled Times (circ. 854,000), Saffir calls it "successful, fat, stuffy" and alleges...
...planes have gone down this year, the latest on July 26 in Pamlico Sound off eastern North Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga for an audience that included Navy Secretary W. Graham Claytor and Budget Director Bert Lance. Financial losses on the Hawk-er-Siddeley planes, which now cost $3.4 million each, so far have totaled $60 million...
Cats may not possess nine lives, but some could make the Guinness Book of World Records with only one. Tom Cadillac, so christened for his feat, was accidentally shipped in a Cadillac chassis from the U.S. to Australia-a seven-week trip at the time-and was still alive on arrival. He had eaten the engine grease and the car's instruction manual. Chat Beau, a four-year-old male, found his human family in Texarkana...
...human annals such a feat would be beyond belief. In Muriel Beadle's richly informative volume, it is only one of many tails well told...