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...good faith of the House was promptly tested and proved. Speaker Martin crushed an attempt by one of his own party, New York's professorial W. Sterling Cole, to upset the streamlined rules provided in the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act. It was a good omen. The new rules stand; House committees are cut from...
...Generalissimo bowed and departed. Outside, it was snowing-an omen, say the Chinese, of Heaven's favor...
...Each His Own, a marked withdrawal from the brave notes of The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, which opened the first U.N. meeting at San Francisco. As the delegates gathered in the old New York City World's Fair Building at Flushing Meadows, they beheld another omen. Dominating the vast, greenish Assembly Hall was an oddly contorted map of the world (in cartographer's lingo: "a north polar azimuthal equidistant projection") which made the U.S. and Canada look relatively normal while the rest of the troubled planet was either upside down or misshapen...
...deadpanned Robert William Andrew Feller, six pounds underweight at 183, went through his usual routine. He hunted up a razor-blade and shaved down the hard calluses on his right thumb and ring-finger. He picked up a baseball to see if it felt light and small (a good omen) or heavy like a pumpkin (a bad omen). It felt soso...
...bunch behind. Ott's nervous stomach, which put him to bed for two weeks when his 1943 Giants slumped into last place, began acting up. He cajoled, threatened, finally fined players. The only thing still left untried: hiring a hackman to drive a wagonload of barrels (a traditional omen of good luck) around the Polo Grounds. But there was a shortage of barrels...