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...appreciate the excellent article on the St. Louis metropolitan police department [Aug. 24]. I regret the oversight in not crediting the outstanding service and cooperation of the other police board members: Russell L. Dearmont, Alphonse G. Eberle, Kenneth Teasdale and Raymond R. Tucker.* Without their counsel and support, no such record would have been possible...
...storm broke, and it wasn't helped any by what Caouette had gone on to say in the magazine: "I admire Mussolini's qualities as a leader and I regret that he was a fascist. I admire in Hitler his economic reforms and I consider that he brought his people out of misery. I regret that he employed for war instead of for peace the ideas which...
...present the "100 Guineas Cup" to the winner. Finally, a hail from the bridge: "Sail ho!" "Which boat is it?" demanded the Queen. "The America, Madam." Said Victoria: "Oh, indeed! And which is second?" There was a pause, while the signalman's glass swept the horizon. "I regret to report," came the halting reply, "that there is no second." "Yankee trickery," charged the British yachtsmen, hinting darkly that black-hulled America was powered by some sort of "infernal machine." In the bitterness of that moment, one of sport's great and enduring contests was born: the America...
Bent on Tragedy. Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication. For most of his working life, that dedication was placed at the service of journalism and films-to his admirers' regret. Reading the letters to Father Flye, it is easy to see how his great hopes might always be somehow frustrated by something else...
...only regret...