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...only one series of starting moves, the single-corner opening. Now, thanks to the hatted analysts who have worked at the game in such dedicated spots as Broadway's checker palaces, there are some 49 classified two-man openings, with hundreds of complicated variations. To checkerists, the post mortem of a game is as dear as it is to bridge players...
...League baseball for the 1942 season rests peacefully and only the post-mortem reflexes of the Big Three will yet disturb the statisticians. The final Harvard-Yale clash and two Eli-Tiger encounters will come off during the next 10 days and then the book will be closed...
Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, just back from the Pacific, last week conducted a post-mortem in Washington. His subject was the Battle of the far Pacific. Admiral Hart had some significant things to say about why the Allies had lost the battle and most of the western Pacific. By inference, his remarks also conveyed some advice on how to win the war. His main points...
This column will operate on the assumption that it is better to whip up enthusiasm for what is coming than to deliver a post-mortem on what is past. During the course of time, several toes may be stepped on and some popular heroes outrageously traduced, so it is hoped that all who feel moved to reply by letter will do so. The good letters will be printed in part, and often the letters constitute the most readable part of a column, as Vergil Thomson's Herald Tribune column has amply demonstrated this fall...
Oblivious of "Mickey the Dude," Coles Phinizy dined on duck and champagne last night, looking into the eyes of his post-mortem Harlow, and flanked by her publicity manager who has succeeded in flying his way into the soup of every man on both the CRIMSON and the Lampoon...