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...vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel is that any mass of human beings can ever achieve a single, united aim, such as victory...
...Promoter Veeck livened things up with fireworks, vaudeville acts, strolling minstrels, a playground for kids. This season, Cleveland set a new major-league attendance record: 2,260,627. And as fast as the money rolled in, Veeck peeled it out. His best buy: Satchel Paige, the ancient Negro pitching marvel...
Franklin P. Adams, veteran columnist and mnemonic marvel of radio's Information, Please, was dabbling again in politics.* He was put up as Democratic candidate for justice of the peace in Weston, Conn., a rock-ribbed Republican community...
Thousands of men & women poured into New York's Grand Central Station last week to see the newest mechanical marvel of the world's most mechanical nation-the "wholly new" Twentieth Century Limited. The New York Central's publicity handouts had described the new Century as "the most modern and luxurious train in all railroading history." This turned out to be something of an overstatement...
...Marvel of It. It was a marvelous triumph-so sweeping that next day the whole of Quebec gasped. Quebec's Liberal leader, Adelard Godbout, had hoped, this time, to carry the province. The Liberals had sent in External Affairs Secretary...