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...unknown in most of the cities where his papers are published-and even in the city rooms of many of the papers themselves. He has never made a public speech in his life, he uses a briefcase for his main office, and he carries in his left-hand coat pocket a sheaf of memo paper, held together by a paperclip, showing the status of his papers' cash account. Although he is a registered Democrat, many of his eleven dailies-scattered across the U.S. from New York to Oregon-are pro-Republican. The publisher: Samuel I. (for Irving) Newhouse...
...increased. Elsewhere, millions of Americans might be asking each other what the jury would do; we kept asking ourselves what the Times would do . . . Finally the decisive hour struck . . . All the other gazettes blared the news of the verdict; our special suspense ended when our eyes reached the lower left-hand corner of the Times's Page One: whatever anguish he must endure in life, Dr. Sheppard had made...
...penalty box, B.C. wing Jim Duffy swung behind the Crimson cage and slipped the puck past Flynn for his first of two goals. Then at 7:56, with Ned Bliss off the ice, center Bob Gallagher put the Eagles ahead with a bullet shot into the upper left-hand corner of the Crimson gail...
...passing, Dr. Zworykin provides diagonal cables that lead from one lane to another. When a fast car treads on the tail of a slower car, one of the diagonals shunts it to the left-hand lane. Another shunts it back again when it is safely past. So far, Dr. Zworykin's system has been tried only with model cars on a simulated highway in his laboratory. The cars do not collide, and one passes the other nicely...
...Alfred M. Gruenther, 42, was General McNair's left-hand man (young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...