Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...
...Fate. In segmented North China, General Fu Tso-yi continued to play a strange sort of game with the Reds. A Communist broadcast had condemned Fu (along with Chiang Kaishek, Sun Fo, most of the new cabinet and others) as a war criminal, deserving a "just penalty." The broadcast added, however, that Fu "could lessen his fate somewhat" if he would immediately surrender Peiping and Tientsin...
...chomping, 36-year-old Lynn Patrick, who had been managing a Ranger farm team, the New Haven Ramblers, had not seen the Rangers play all season. At the final buzzer, he was wringing wet and shaking from tension. Said he: "I've never wanted to win a game so much in my life." The Rangers cooperated by handing the Black Hawks their first defeat in five games...
Accumulated disasters had NBC groggy but game. Said NBC Vice President Sid Eiges: "Nobody's sitting around worrying. We have new programs in the works-shows of all kinds, including comedy." Meanwhile, NBC is playing musical chairs with its disordered Sunday night schedule. Horace Heidt and his orchestra will be moved from 10:30 p.m. to Jack Benny's 7 p.m. slot; two new comics, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, will replace Heidt. Fred Allen switches from 8:30 to 8 p.m. But that still leaves holes to be plugged...
...there was much less hoopla. Their new Manhattan recording studio, a converted church, was as sparsely peopled as an English cathedral at evensong. A hundred-odd lights, suspended like enormous inverted flowers from the beamed ceiling, illuminated a small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials. A poker game was started, and Arthur Godfrey, who had been called in to cut some corn named I'm Going Back to Whur I Come From, "noodled," as he called it, on the studio organ. When word came that the ban was over, Columbia, undistracted by bigwigs and publicity gags...