Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many hard-working political reporters, looking back on their campaign coverage, could not see how they could have done better under the circumstances. Even their best sources had failed them, apparently led astray by the polls. Said one last week: "If a professional like Jake Arvey thinks his Democrats will lose Illinois by up to half a million votes, how can a reporter know that they...
...little pavement-pounding . . . From now on, Indiana is neither G.O.P. nor Democratic to me. I know I'll have to dig to find out. It has been a wonderful lesson to those newspapermen who still have enough sense left to know that they got a lesson the hard way, and that they'd better brush up again on the fundamentals...
Reporter Root outlined his views in somber detail in the Christian Century. Though he wrote even before the fall of Mukden, Root did not find it hard to believe the Communist boast of complete control of China within three or four years. If that should happen, what would be the prospects for Christianity...
...upsets, sat through another one: unbeaten little Nevada lost, 14-0, to Santa Clara. A fortnight ago, Nevada's star quarterback, 190-lb. Stan Heath, set a new intercollegiate forward-passing record, has now gained 1,758 yards by passing this season. But Santa Clara rushed him so hard that he had trouble getting his passes off. Even so, Quarterback Heath, son of an old big-league catcher, is regarded by pro teams as one of the prize catches of the 1948 season...
Says Jerry: "Dad doesn't insist we all must be world beaters. The only thing he lays on the line without any ifs is we've got to play hard. And he lets us know that if our marks fall we're out of football. None of us could stand that...