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...attempt to fulfill the epic sweep that Remembrance Rock fails. To a considerable extent it fails because of it -the grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...
...Russian government is not interested in objective, or what it calls 'technical' facts, but only in concocting its own 'political' facts to further its own aims. As long as the Russian government persists in that practice, a real understanding with Russia will be well-nigh impossible...
Handsome Lady Mountbatten flew home from New Delhi with her handsome husband, who had just retired as Britain's last Governor General of India (TIME, June 28), after a well-nigh unforgettable leave-taking from his successor, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari...
...Europe, met a fellow tourist, blonde Margery Pepperell Kimball from Massachusetts. Their romance bloomed. They were no sooner married than Clifford began nourishing as a lawyer. St. Louis Lawyer Jacob Lashly began throwing accident cases his way, soon saw that with juries, handsome, earnest Clifford was "well nigh irresistible." By 1938 the firm became Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford and by 1942 the new partner was making $25,000 a year...
Jolt. Big Labor sounded off, too. Officially, Big Labor was all in favor of ERP. C.I.O. President Phil Murray cried that it would be "well-nigh criminal" to reduce ERP's appropriation by a billion or more. But when it came to the points where ERP touched home, the C.I.O. sang a different tune. Joe Curran, boss of the National Maritime Union, charged that the proposed sale and charter of 500 U.S. Liberty ships to Europe would cost 500,000 American jobs. He urged not only that the ships be kept, but that at least 60% of ERP supplies...