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Having girded ourselves for that heroic errand, shall we pause to ask if she will mend her morals? . . . Either she is worth saving as she is and was, or she is not worth saving...
...Reader Simon mend his damns. The three "damn dumbs" which he quotes were themselves quoted by Wendell Willkie from Harry Hopkins. Instead of the other, Candidate Willkie said: "I have worked as hard as any guy in this crowd...
...year when Louisiana had kicked out the remnants of the Huey Long machine, they had voted to restore Pendergastery. Old Tom Pendergast was out of Leavenworth on probation, and under the lee of Mayor Bernard Dickmann's St. Louis machine the Pendergasters in Kansas City could now mend their battered breeches. No one believed that Republican Candidate Manuel A. Davis would be strong enough to beat Truman in November. If Missourians cared, they had only themselves to blame. In St. Louis alone 169,000 registered voters had failed to go to the polls...
...starts, but'she doesn't arrive anywhere," male fliers used to say of Jacqueline ("Jackie") Cochran. Blonde, jolly Miss Cochran (Mrs. Floyd Odium on the ground) made them mend such talk in 1938, when she outflew nine men and won the arduous, annual Bendix Trophy Race in 8 hours, 10 minutes, 31.4 seconds (male record: 7 hours, 54 minutes, 26.31 seconds). Last week she popped another speed mark into her bagful of trophies and records: 2.000 kilometers (1,242.74 miles) from Burbank, Calif, to Albuquerque, N. M. and back in 3 hours, 44 minutes, 47 seconds...
...Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo-minded Senators were given to understand that it would be a good idea to hold off on bills curbing trade with Japan, let Ambassador Horinouchi and his superiors in Tokyo continue to wait, see, and-who knows?-mend their military manners...