Word: ringer
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...Labor Follows brought in a ringer in the person of John G. Dunlop, one of their instructors, but the appointment of Mac McCormick, Nieman Fellow, was some compensation for the journalists...
...playful Dudley Field Malone, 60, once wealthy, long-famed attorney for the glittering great, once assistant Secretary of State (under Wilson). The film: Hollywood's version of Friend Joseph E. Davies' Mission to Moscow. The role: Winston Churchill, for whom Malone, from the skull down, is a ringer...
...learned to fly. From his Republican father, U.S. Senator (1917-23) Howard Sutherland of West Virginia, Dick Sutherland even acquired a smattering of politics. He redesigned the Army-Navy Country Club course in Washington, won the Army golf championship. Once in a service baseball game he brought in a ringer: his brother-in-law, Bucky Harris, manager of the Washington Senators...
Swakopmund. "Its buildings might have been lifted bodily from any small north German seaside town: its hotels-the Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are still wearing their blue German peaked caps, the schoolboys, their green or red caps with gold braid...
...team's gold-and-blue shirts have white jersey half-sleeves like those worn by British track athletes and give the impression that they were run up by the players' mothers or that the boys forgot to remove their underwear. Coach Dyke Raese is a dead ringer for Hollywood's Humphrey Bogart...