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...states, formed alliances which would be useful later, collected intelligence reports on local problems, local people. The Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries almost made all this work useless. Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose. He was told that if he wanted the nomination, he would have to go after it-and hard. He did. In Oregon's rainy spring he made 92 speeches in 20 days, made obeisance to every traditional ritual of the successful campaigner. He won the primary. That was the turning point...
...President paused a moment, then said that the same thing was true in this case. In the interest of saving the lives of perhaps 250,000 American young men, he thought the decision to use the bomb was right when he made it-and he still thought it was right...
...center line, but in its text pieces it sometimes wavers in a fashion bewildering to readers. When its left-wing Associate Editor Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow wrote a series about Russia to the effect that U.S. folks don't understand the Russians but should, the Post ran it-and added a self-conscious little note saying: "Readers may be interested to know that the series . . . precipitated as lively a debate in the editorial rooms . . . as ever taxed the capacities of Messrs. Bevin, Byrnes and Molotov. . . . I believe it is high time that such an interpretation should...
Invitation to a Haymaker. At 40, Leo Ernest Durocher is the most talked-about and most unloved man in baseball. From heavy-lidded eyes he stares a perpetual challenge to the world. He fears no man. His square chin juts an open invitation for somebody to hit it-and about half of baseball's players and umpires, at one time or another, have resolved to do just that thing some...
...characters, but as Donald reads the role, it contains some winning bits of brannigan. A favorite Cassidy wheeze: having resolved to give up the stuff, he puts himself to the test by trying to pass Kerrigan's Kosy Korner without dropping in. After a desperate struggle he makes it-and promptly returns to Kerrigan's to celebrate his moral victory with a snootful...