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With no lettermen from pre-war teams returning, Boston in building his squad almost from scratch and dolefully admits that "this year we are probably just going along for the ride." "If we win any of our major meets this year, I will be satisfied," year will give the boys lots of experience, and by next year we ought to have a hot outfit...
...delegation to ECOSOC, said that Stadnik had been shot by a dum-dum bullet (contrary to The Hague Convention governing civilized warfare), sputtered: "Thousands of people in the U.S. are not shot every day. This is an exception." Stadnik complained he had fought through World War II without a scratch-only to be struck down in a supposedly friendly land...
...unknown quantity, is not the easiest thing for a coach to do, in any event. In Barclay's case it was particularly difficult, for, outside of Mariaschin, John Gantt, and Pete Petrillo, whom he could watch in motion pictures of last year's games, he was starting from scratch...
...time chosen by Koestler is 1937-39, a tense period when many Jews turned from the conference table to armed terrorism. Koestler tells the story of a typical Jewish commune and the 25 pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through...
...Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...