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...Poke Pincher...
Ratty. In Goldsboro, N.C., a drunk, unable to pay his $1.40 fine, was locked up to "sit it out." While sitting it out, he saw a rat with something in its mouth poke its head through a hole in the wall...
Against the massive armada commanded by the U.S.'s gimlet-eyed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, little Shimada had thrown an inferior task force. He had planned the action so cautiously that his force did not come within hundreds of miles of Spruance's guns. But it did poke its nose within range of Spruance's naval aircraft. That was enough...
...argument had blown since Mackinac in September; Wendell Willkie had been smashed in Wisconsin; in the lack of enlightened leadership toward an effective internationalism, the U.S. people seemed more & more to side with Senator Robert La Follette's reluctance "to buy an international pig in a beautiful poke...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art celebrated its 15th birthday last week. The celebration took the form of a massive show which was to earlier Modern Museum shows as lightning to static electricity. Only at the risk of shin splints did gallerygoers poke into all the corners of the Museum's spectacular open house. Outstanding were...