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...Quent." As Reynolds had hoped, the French official promptly accredited him. But to Reynolds' embarrassment the official also volunteered to dispatch the cable to President Roosevelt, whom Reynolds had never even met. Explained Reynolds in a Manhattan court last week: "I didn't think he would be fool enough to believe it. I hoped he would, though ... I exercised [the] journalistic enterprise that I had learned [working for Hearst's] International News Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear Uncle | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...stamina; the greater the distance, the better he seemed to go. But in September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot and a limp in his walk. It was a stone bruise. The Dancer was retired for the rest of the-year. Tom Fool, a fabulous four-year-old, won New York's three big handicap races (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). Horsemen who had hoped to see Tom Fool and Native Dancer in the same race were disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Big Grey | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Maybe so, but I ain't so drunk I can't see what's goin' on. They're tryin' to fool the American people. That's what Barnum said, the American people likes to be fooled. Can't trust anything you read in the newspapers, all printed upside down. Them words they're usin', that's just to confuse people. Why in hell can't they say it in English...

Author: By Harry K. Schwartz, | Title: The Bloodshot Eye | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...fool ourselves, we have not reached the hearts of the masses in Africa, Asia, or even in Italy or France. But the Communists have, by promises and other false methods," I N. Steinberg, who quit the Revolutionary Government in 1918 and came to the United States, told a Liberal Union forum...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Soviet Revolutionary Leader Says Russia Leading in Propaganda Race | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

That did not fool the Mundt committee's Counsel Ray Jenkins for an instant. McCarthy had charged the Army with "blackmail," he snapped, and if Cohn did not want to write out the details, he, Jenkins, would. Cohn backtracked, agreed to supply the information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Gathering Storm | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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