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...forger in print. He is himself sadly handicapped because: 1) the slippery major left few biographical traces, 2) Major Byron was first written as a Ph.D. thesis, and after two rewritings is still more awkward and pedestrian than even most doctoral dissertations. Yet Dr. Ehrsam sometimes proves himself a shrewder hand than his literary betters in the treacherous field of literary hokum...
Since then, no word of Molotov's current activities has appeared in the Soviet press. For all anyone in the West knows, he could be dead or he could be running Russia. Shrewder guesses: 1) he has been put in charge of the Communists in China and the prospering campaign to take over Southeast Asia; 2) he has been put in charge of the vendetta against Tito...
...sell the trust stock to McCormick for a reported $9,500,000-if McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth at least $35,000 a share) of the McCormick-Patterson trust stock. Times-Herald staffers wondered whether there would be any personnel changes. Said Editor Waldrop: 'You'll have to ask the colonel...
...Kidding. Because the world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
...anti-semite. To most people it is something of a truism to say that anti-semitism is evil--so much of a truism, in fact, that when a man stands on a chair and shouts "I hate Jews," it is better to ignore him and to concentrate criticism on shrewder, more careful anti-semites. Hart did not declare that he hated Jews, but he named the Truman administration, the Marshall Plan, and the U. N. to be influenced strongly by a powerful "international Jewish organization," and his feeble defense of this opinion against belligerent questions, his refusal to make clear...