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...Messaggero had written a convincing argument that the "xenophobes" of Hollywood were not about to ''dig their graves with their own hands" by honoring furriners. Sophia canceled her plane reservations at the last moment, feeling too overwrought to fly halfway round the world to play the gracious loser...
...though the election is still seven months away, much of the press is already talking of Nixon as a potential loser. Columnist Marquis Childs of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently compared Nixon to Thomas E. Dewey as a man with a losing habit...
...humor of the loser as it's performed today has in all but a few cases become the humor of the master. And it retains not the vaguest memory of the dissatisfied, underfed, rebellious child it used to be. Its observations are easy to come by. It has gone from "I'm not kidding about everything being wrong" to "I'm only kidding about everything being wrong." It has become button down. It has grown...
...nationalism is based in part on a nagging suspicion that West Germany will be the loser in a cold-war settlement between the U.S. and Moscow; the fear is of a deal with Moscow that would reduce West Berlin's ties to West Germany, and permanently recognize Red rule in East Germany. With this in mind, so stalwart a supporter of the West as former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano (now Christian Democratic leader in Parliament) recently reminded the Allies sharply that "it is intolerable to offer additional concessions. The aim of talks must be to convince the Soviet...
Harvard's only loser was John Vinton, who dropped a four-game match to Phil Goddard at number seven...