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...Those jerks gave away the pennant," was the immediate, well-nigh universal reaction...
Telling Off Stalin. It was a fine, organ-like performance. But by this point, the newsmen were anxious to get back to the breathtaking disclosure that Truman had once, by ultimatum, told off Stalin and well-nigh carried the country into war with Russia. Had the ultimatum been published before? The President said no, but it is in the record. When was the ultimatum delivered? The President first said 1945. After a whispered consultation with Press Secretary Joe Short, he agreed that maybe it was 1946. But the dates were not important, said Harry Truman. The facts were that...
...forgiven for featuring a chess tournament in your Sport pages. You may be forgiven for nigh onto any other honest mistake. But take cover, brother . . . when you misplace a cherished possession of 20-odd thousand fight-at-the-drop-of-a-hat citizens of Bartlesville, Okla. When those citizens read in TIME, April 7 Sport section that the Phillips Oilers were from Denver, Colo., the air was rent with screams of anguish that would have done justice to the Brooklyn faithful in the Polo Grounds last October...
...mankind that haunted nigh...
...Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through