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...actually is); cool, aloof Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler; able Sir Oliver Lyttelton; clever Harold Macmillan; lazy Oliver Stanley. But there was little doubt that the telling weight in the decision would be Churchill's. And there was almost no doubt that Churchill would decide against trying for a knockout blow...
...where the infrequent clouds have a bright blue-and-silver lining, the city fathers spent 50,000,000 francs ($419,800) to put as amusing a face as possible on France's current history. One giant mask in this year's annual carnival (see cut) represented the 1940 German knockout blow, another Occupation's heavy hand, a third the joys and hopes of Liberation. A fourth was labeled "OŁ va t'on?" (Where do we go from here?). That one symbolized the France which last week teetered ominously between fresh hope and fresh danger...
...husband's murder. By the time Brent's system has absorbed about all the slow poison it will stand, Merle suddenly searches her heart and discovers that her husband, after all, is the man she really, truly loves. With no alternative, the unhappy lady briskly feeds the knockout powders to her lover instead...
...customers now complained that customers were mean to them. OPA, which had been the lamented darling of many housewives when meat was plentiful but high in price, was now blamed by almost everybody for the famine. Washington dopesters figured that the wobbly OPA was just about ripe for a knockout punch...
...time of the knockout, 2 min. 9 sec. of the first round, was a near record for Louis. In 1938 it took Joe just 2 min. 4 sec. to polish off Max Schmeling, who had made the mistake of knocking out Louis in their previous meeting...