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Funniest sequel to the discovery was an attempt by the Japanese to annex the nova. CBS's short-wave listening station heard Tokyo announce that a Japanese amateur astronomer, Shiaki Nakihava, had first sighted the new star. The Japanese called his feat "one of the greatest events in science...
Attaching little importance to himself as "just a pretty good longshoreman," Bridges vigorously attacked what he termed the "Biddle yardstick for arbitrarily measuring how good a patriot a man is." He appealed directly to the heterogenous Harvard-Radcliffe-Cambridge audience for support of the nation's labor leaders, who he...
President Clinton D. McKinnon, who is a jockey-sized little fireball with unruly black hair and bounding energy, sighted greener pastures when the valley began to swarm with "foreigners" two years ago. Neither Okies nor retired Iowa farmers, they were youngsters who had come to work in California's...
This catastrophe cuts the other way, too, for it can strengthen American morale. Blind self-assurance has suffered a moral blow; the era of short-sighted faith is gone. Joe Gordon caught off second is as unlikely as Douglas MacArthur caught off Australia. Bill Dickey's throwing into center field...
Bombers broke cloud over the Skagerrak and came in 100 feet above Oslo in the brilliant sunshine. R.A.F. bombardiers sighted the University building where, two years to a day after he became head of Norway's Nazis, Premier Vidkun Quisling was haranguing a Nasjonal Samling (Nazi) Party rally on...