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...cutting it or making it more readable. "The Times," cracked one old hand, "is probably the best unedited paper in the world." Washington Correspondent John Day of the Louisville Courier-Journal aptly summed up this feeling of reluctant admiration recently. "There are mornings," he told Publisher Sulzberger, "when I grab hold of a copy of the Times and say to it: 'Damn you, I'm going to read you if it kills...
Neither team did much in the third period except wade through the mud. Some clever playmaking by the first midfield and attackman Rick Hudner, coupled with two fast scoring shots by Plissner enabled the Crimson to dominate the last period and grab a 7 to 6 lead with two minutes left...
...Locals Grab Lead...
...question whether John Strachey would grab a few top-secret documents from his desk and pass them to the Russian ambassador was irrelevant in 1950; Strachey was probably just as good a "security risk" (in the cops & robbers sense) as anybody else. The important question was whether a man who can write (and apparently still believes) such drivel about Soviet Russia has any business being Britain's War Minister at a time when all the West (including the capitalistic societies which Strachey so openly hates) is fighting for its life. To give Strachey his present...
...such standbys as September in the Rain and East of the Sun, sentimentalists got a straight chorus to hang their memories on before taking off on a jaunt through the weird intervals, lurching rhythms and monotonous riffs of the bop landscape. "The public," Shearing explained, "needs a handle to grab before they'll really catch...