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Young Washington (the first two volumes bring him up to the age of 27) is 1,013 pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...
When ex-funnyman Charles A. "Muddy" Rheault, Jr. announced his decision to retire from active competition after his performance Friday, the guesswork was narrowed down to E.N. Carpenter, E.M. Pope, Jr., and three men named Livingston...
Suggestion. In Prince Rupert, B.C., police investigated the name on a fishing boat, Guess Who?, dispensed with guesswork, scraped off the name to uncover the old one, pinched the fisherman for boat-stealing...
...dearth of facts which make it impossible to calculate Russia's intentions, it's action is restricted by the fear of betting its entire roll on the wrong horse. But under the Marshall Plan it could go ahead without the necessity of making a choice, based at best on guesswork. If Russia is really headed towards unlimited expansion, the United States will gain friends in western Europe, relieve the economic pressure which has forced several nations to a state of dependence on the whims of Moscow, and drive a sizable wedge into the Russian bloe. If Russia is motivated chiefly...
...take the guesswork out of estimating future traffic and the number and kinds of planes needed to carry it, he set up an economics planning division. Dismayed by the wasteful and expensive competition between lines for new planes, Patterson got four other lines together, talked them into agreeing on a single new design for all of them. The result: the famed DC-4. As Patterson says: Why be first? Why not even up the gamble on a new plane? In the same way, he got together with American Airlines' C. R. Smith early in the war and got Douglas...