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...Lingering Predilection." From the outset, Stimson's major opponents were the two sometimes brilliant, always compelling men who ran the war from Washington and London. Though both Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had early accepted the War Department's Operation BOLERO (a 50-division cross-Channel assault by the summer of 1943), "neither of the two had been fully and finally persuaded...
uprising that stunned the New Haven visitors, rated 10 point favorites at the outset, gave Harvard a 14 to 0 lead at the quarter, and a 14 to 18 edge at the half. As some spectators tell the story, "We won the first half; they won the second...
Meanwhile, the odds on a Dilworth victory, prohibitive at the outset, plummeted daily. The Republicans still appeared likely to pull through on the strength of their customarily overpowering majorities in 20 downtown and river wards-the "controlled" wards. But Dick Dilworth was giving them a scare. Said one unhappy ward heeler: "It's getting so they're afraid to take a bet at City Hall...
...Uncle Sam had come into World War II at the outset ... if you even had the gallantry to admit that Britain's postwar travail stems from what she did for the rest of us in 1940 and 1941 . . . Canadian opinion of Uncle Sam would not be what it is today. As Canadians see it, Uncle's new status as dictator of the free world's economy derives directly from the Great Hangback...
...couple of well-done, anti-prejudicial speeches by Robert the First. These things make the picture novel and worth-while entertainment, but its producers could actually have gone much further with the social idea and left out some of the unnecessary, dramatic flairs. Minor complications arise at the outset for the audience and the detective when a harmless soldier, who is first suspected of the crime, bemoans the absence of his wife. He eventually ends up very happily with her, to the greater glory of the institution of marriage and the lesser glory of plot continuity...