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...another baseball contest yesterday, the Detroit Tigers squeezed into the record books by becoming the first cellar team in American League history to draw more than a millio nfans at home. The near equally hapless Browns...
Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover boom. The depression, Democrats jeered, was the Hoover depression. The huddled shanties near the railroad tracks, where ragged men cooked garbage over old oil drums, were called Hoovervilles...
...fertile Nile, cradle of a once-great civilization, is today one of the world's great slums. Desert covers 96% of Egypt, leaving less than six million acres of arable land, clinging in a narrow green strip to the winding Nile. There live 12 million hapless people, in the most densely populated rural area in the world. The wealthy one-tenth of one percent of Egypt's landowners hold almost 60% of the land. The army proposes to break up all estates of more than 200 acres, sell the surplus acreage to fellaheens with less than two acres...
...hospitality is formidable fun. Business associates, invited to his country place for a "quiet lunchtime conference," are not surprised to find a dense crowd milling around on the lawn. When the group eventually thins out enough to cram itself into the dining room for dinner, it sometimes includes a hapless guest who came to the wrong house and found himself swept into the genial Greek maelstrom. Such lost souls generally look to Skouras like old friends. "Haven't seen r you for a long time," he will shout. "How's / everything in St. Louis...
...stockholder in the hapless St. Louis Browns (see SPORT...