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...Grand Slam. In London, William Deven slammed his wife's bedroom door with such vigor that the three-story facade of the house fell off, crashed to the ground...
...Running in a crowded field (six candidates in all) plump, 42-year-old Maurice Hartt ran thousands of votes ahead of both Independent Paul Masse and Communist Michael Buhay. The fact that the Liberal Party's best bilingual orators journeyed over from Ottawa for the windup of a slam-bang campaign, helped. But Winner Hartt almost surely owed his victory most of all to the electorate's change of mind about Communism. The Hartt victory also indicated approval of the Federal Government's handling of the Russian spy-ring investigations...
...almost every other word to give it class. When two male Vouts met they whirled their "jelly chains" (three-foot watch chains), bent, backwards from the knees, and reached up to shake hands at eye level. New Orleans girls were wearing bells on their shoes and carrying ''slam books"-notebooks in which they exchanged brutally frank comment on all their friends...
...Canadian Seamen's Union, was bedded by a heart attack a few months ago, he had some time to think about his politics and his job. What he thought made him so mad that last week "Pat" Sullivan walked right out of the C.S.U. and slammed the door. The slam was heard all over Canada...
...Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War-give more colorful pictures of life on the Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone to smash...