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...would come when the enemy was prepared. When would that be? "The conclusions of the Commission ... fix as the target date by which we should have an air arm capable of dealing with a possible atomic attack on this country at Jan. i, 1953. For convenience we will refer to this date...
Said he: "The Cardinals refer to him, in hushed tones, as Fearless Bert Wilson. He has fixed upon the Cardinals a cold, disapproving eye, and frankly, we are not up to meeting it. We have lowered our own eyes. He has been predicting for weeks that the Cardinals would fold...
Manhattan city editors sometimes refer to the New York Social Register as the Stud Book. A stud book lists well-bred horses; the Register (supposedly) lists well-bred people. But while a stud book follows a consistent adherence to blood lines, the Register is often oddly inconsistent...
...refer, of course, to the make-up of your Nov. 17 issue, pages 34-35, wherein the Goodyear ad picturing Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is in apposition to the photo of the Bolshevik 30th Anniversary Parade in Moscow...
Poppa's Boy. Chep Morrison's family goes far back into that turbulent history. Though his political opponents glibly refer to him as a "Boston Club man," he is not a member of that proud and rigid club. Reform movements used to start in the Boston Club; generally they amounted to no more than a delicate finger-pointing at the city's bland face of corruption. The movement to which Chep belongs has been more effective...