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When marines on Wake Island were repulsing Jap attacks I didn't say, "The Japs will never take Wake!" Later, when Wake was captured, I didn't say, "I told you so! We shoulda had 10,000 men on Wake! We shoulda ringed the joint with ships and had a skyful of planes...
...into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz robbed" (when Schmeling lost to Sharkey in their second fight for the heavyweight title); "I shoulda stood in bed" (when he found himself among the shivering spectators at a World Series game one frosty day in Detroit...