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...Fie on the Finns. Early in the Tribune's career, it had narrowly escaped abduction by the Communists, while Cripps and Bevan weren't paying enough attention. Publisher Victor Gollancz, then a fellow traveler (now safely home again), began sharing the deficits with Stafford Cripps in 1938, and Konni Zilliacus, now a pro-Soviet M.P., blossomed as the "Diplomatic Correspondent." In 1940, when the Tribune went so far as to accuse the Finns of aggression against Russia, Nye Bevan woke up and rushed to the rescue...
...Fie on TIME's crusty, embittered obituary on Fifth Avenue's open buses [TIME, Dec. 30]. Thousands of New Yorkers, as well as visitors, will find their eyes glistening with nostalgia as these wonderful old carriers trundle off to the Old Bus Cemetery. Where else could you have so many
...Fie on TIME for libeling a lady and making a killer of her. Dangerous Dan McGrew was pumped full of lead by the man from the creeks...
...Fie on TIME (June 12) for libeling a lady, and making a killer out of her. Dangerous Dan McGrew was "pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead" by the man from the creeks. The lady that's known as Lou pinched several pokes, but pulled no triggers...
...telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks of red watermelon into his mouth from the end of a rancher's stiletto, or plays a little dominoes with his brothers. (They usually win.) At night...