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...Blue Chip is not so much a novel as a fictional memoir warmly evocative of another time. Author Rennie's granddad was a great plunger in Colorado silver; his bankruptcy in the panic of 1893 was "fabulous." Her dad, like Jim Packer, was a speculator in Arizona copper. Young Tommy Packer, who tells the story of his father's faith and failure, does it with a mixture of sympathy, skepticism and faith as authentic as it is engaging...
...against my will," he became Ambassador to Ankara, hoping "to do what I could to avert" a general war. Four months later, Hitler pressed the plunger for World War II. He "grossly misled me again," complains Von Papen. But he stayed at his post anyway "to limit the conflict," i.e., to keep the Turks from fighting on the side of the Allies. Eventually, Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and Von Papen returned to the Reich after the German officers' plot on Hitler's life had failed. He claims that he "fully expected to be arrested...
Atop a flag-decked stand at Canneau one day last week, President Paul Magloire cocked his aluminum safety helmet at a rakish angle and pushed a plunger to explode 50 lbs. of dynamite, the first blast in the construction of Haiti's $21 million Little TVA in the Artibonite Valley (TIME, Jan. 12).* A small boy in the crowd of 2,000, expecting something downright atomic, heard the muffled whoom and muttered, "Pas bon [no good...
...follow Truman through the same whistle stops and present the Republican rebuttal to his "facts." The Republican vigilance was thoroughly justified; the President was engaged in a no-holds-barred assault on the Republican Party's strongest asset. At Montana's Tiber Dam, Truman pushed down a plunger setting off a dynamite charge. Playfully, he told reporters: "This is what we're going to do to Eisenhower...
Everett stopped at Harry's for breakfast, and between his orange juice and coffee, he decided to put one nickel into an old, delapidated MARYLAND machine. Old timers remember that it was just 9:05 when he pulled back the plunger for that first ball. Just what happened, how it happened, no one knows, but when the bells stopped ringing. Everett had won seven free games...