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After only the merest taste of victory last weekend, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson quintet went down to their eighth defeat of the campaign 47 to 34 Wednesday as they met a polished group of ball-handlers at Melville Motor Torpedo Boat S.T.C...
...even if true, this was little consolation for civilians. They wanted soldiers to have all the cigarets they needed. The merest shred of comfort came from S. Clay Williams, board chairman of potent R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. To a Senate investigating committee, he confessed that even he had to walk more than a mile for a Camel...
...save embarrassment, the G.O.P. strategy called for alternate introductions by the candidates. Both jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
Portland to Pottsville. The fall of Paris gave another puff to the giant balloon of U.S. optimism. The cheering over Paris was the merest rehearsal for the most important date now on U.S. minds: the day Germany gives up. From Hollywood to Manhattan, U.S. communities were perfecting solemn, nervous or frivolous plans for V-day-and almost all city & state officials seemed to be going ahead on the assumption that the citizenry would get roaring drunk. Many citizens, suspecting that the officials might be right, were laying away extra quarts of blended spirits...
...favorite accompanist of flamenco singers and dancers all over Spain. Nowadays, on evenings when he is not working, easy-going Sabicas-who looks like a Spanish Tom Dewey-is usually to be found in a 52nd Street Spanish restaurant named El Flamenco, strumming his guitar for love at the merest hint...