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U.S. policy-makers had another angle to consider: Russia. Perón barely led in the election returns when Buenos Aires' keen-nosed Communists joined Perónist unions in a paralyzing strike against packing plants, most of them U.S.-and British-owned. A Russian trade delegation was on...
War Knight had not won a race since 1944, and Trainer Charlie Leavitt almost scratched him-but Owner Ethel Hill insisted that he run. He ran as he never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood...
Hannen Swaffer, peninsula-nosed old bonebag who rattled out such fee-faw-fum dramatic criticism that London's Laborite Daily Herald turned him loose on the Tories, arrived in Manhattan with his hair in its usual bun, his tongue as tart as ever. Two new Swafferisms: 1) on Winston...
Nosed out by a score of 4 to 3, Coach Chase's Varsity hockey team suffered its fourth consecutive defeat in a game played at West Point on Friday. The Crimson sextet, three goals behind at the start of the third period, rallied desperately with two markers before the Cadet...
Big-nosed, Hungarian-born Edward Teller had just returned to Chicago from the Los Alamos Laboratory. The situation there, said Teller, was "catastrophic." Only a handful of scientists remained, and they would leave too unless the Army made drastic changes. The bomb had certainly upset his life, he said. "All...