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With Leo dashing on & off the field, it usually takes the Dodgers longer than any other club to play a nine-inning game. The Dodgers seem to thrive on continuous hubbub; their rivals don't. Explains Leo: "When I'm out on that field I like nobody but the guy who's got Dodger written on his chest. Now afterwards, sure, I'll take one of the other team out and buy them dinner, but during the game I hate them...
Again & again-seven times altogether -Churchill charged to the attack amidst growing hubbub. "Surely," he cried, bringing up his left arm as his voice rose, "the right honorable gentleman did not wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, let us get another Viceroy!' It must have some purpose or reason behind it." He scowled across at Attlee, then slowly wheeled round like a battleship's gun turret and returned to his seat...
...Cortot played the piano and the audience made the noise. The orchestra refused to accompany him, walked off stage. "Collaborationist!" yelled some of the audience. "Vive Cortot!" shouted others. Competing choruses of praise and damnation drowned out the music. Cortot grimly stuck to his keyboard, kept playing through the hubbub, finally won silence. At concert's end: an ovation...
...Amid the hubbub, Ottawa maintained a discreet silence. But all knew that Canada would like to take Newfoundland and Labrador into the family. Poor cousin Newfoundland, with its national debt trimmed to $74,000,000 and with $28,669,000 in the bank, looked more attractive than she had in decades. Moreover, her war-built airports have helped make Newfoundland the aerial crossroads of the North Atlantic, a new, potent bargaining point. Of the five major airports, Canada holds two (Torbay and Goose Bay), Newfoundland one (Gander) and the U.S. two (Harmon Field and Argentia) -most of them still involved...
There was so much hubbub over the Wallace ouster that no one thought much about his possible successor. That could wait. Harry Truman went off to seek weekend sanctuary on the presidential yacht...