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...Newcombe, hapless goat of the Dodger defeat in the World Series, won the first Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball to go with his plaque as National League's Most Valuable Player...
Princeton unveiled a new running star, Tom Morris, in throughly trampling a hapless Columbia team, 39 to 0, for the Lions' second straight Ivy loss. Columbia's star quarterback and passer, Claude Benham, received a brain concussion late in the first quarter to further dampen Columbia hopes...
...bars posted signs: "Men in uniform not wanted." Readers canceled subscriptions to newspapers and magazines which carried recruiting appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers: "Why don't you get a decent job and stop living on our taxes?" One German unit reported that seven out of every...
...sideshow for others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...
Britons saw their first Report from America last February. Called Roads and Traffic, it opened with a shot of a London policeman writing out a parking ticket for some hapless Briton, switched to a Manhattan policeman doing the same thing for a glum American motorist. There were the nerve-jarring traffic jams as well as the glossy six-lane highways, and the whole was pleasantly salted with a wry and unpretentious commentary. Reaction was immediate. "An outstanding event," said the Sunday Times. "Visual journalism at its best," said the South Wales Echo. "A winner," said the London Evening News. Just...