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Then, at week's end, Russia's Jake Malik shattered the mood with a thunderous cry from the United Nations in Paris. Said he: "This world war has in fact begun!" Nobody got panicky, for the U.S. had for a long time suspected that this might be true. With a heave of its shoulders, the nation pulled itself together, wistfully pushed from mind the delightful thought that the "rarest emergency" was just a getaway race with the next V-8 when the traffic light flicked to green...
Said Democratic Boss Jake Arvey: "While I was Cook County Democratic chairman, I experienced no trouble in getting the Tribune to print Democratic news . . . They always gave us fair coverage." Six other top Democratic politicians said the same thing...
...last week Princeton grads were earnestly stacking Kazmaier up against Old Nassau's football immortals-Garry LeVan, Jake Slagle, San White, Hector Cowan and Edgar Allan Poe, quarterback on the '89 team.- Undergraduates, howling gleefully in the stands, were comparing Kazmaier to players they had never seen-Tommy Harmon, Red Grange, Chris Cagle. On the record, Kaz ranks with the best of today's amateurs: Tennessee's Hank Lauricella, Illinois' Johnny Karras, Southern California's Frank Gifford. And on the record, for the second year in a row, he is an inevitable choice...
...bench, where the docket is badly overcrowded. By ancient senatorial privilege, as the state's only Democratic Senator, he is entitled to pick the men whom the President will nominate. He sent the White House three names, one of them a past president of the Chicago Bar Association. Jake Arvey's Democratic machine boys okayed Douglas' choice. But Harry Truman put off his decision, nursing a growing grudge...
...Jake LaMotta, whom Robinson later beat five times. *Remarked one Briton: "I hear Cadillac has agreed never to paint another like that." His friend, after a thoughtful pause: "No, really? But still, I shouldn't think there'd be many chaps who'd want that color...