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...occasions, rumors were plentiful. The one picked up by those "who are in a position to know," was that he had to catch a plane "somewhere." They say that the animal who has given rides to so many celebrities in the famous Advocate barouche wept bitter tears, took a slug of the punch, and promptly died...
Monday mornings, the 2,000,000-odd readers of Joe Patterson's New York Daily News start the week with a good slug of anti-New Dealism called Capitol Stuff. Its author is the News's sardonic, dapper, Roosevelt-baiting Washington correspondent John O'Donnell. Last week Ribber O'Donnell was in fine choleric fettle...
Three pitchers and eight runs weren't quite enough for the Crimson to win Wednesday afternoon at Soldiers Field as an all-star service team made up of Army men from forts in the Boston Harbor Defense Area edged the Stahlmen in a slug-fest by a 9-8 score. It was the second loss in as many games for the team, bringing their record for the summer season to three wins and five losses...
Meantime the battleship may possibly have an Indian summer. Since apparently at least half of the Jap carrier strength was destroyed in the Coral Sea and near Midway, the big U.S. battlewagons may get a chance to go in and slug the Jap surface fleet. But battleships will have a chance to fight only until the navies of the world get adequate carrier forces-or after an adequate naval defense against aircraft has been devised...
...hammer-handed slug is the London bobby. No policeman in the world is more efficient, more widely respected for politeness and patience. Last week the patient politeness of eight bobbies assigned to the Japanese Embassy staff was strained nearly to the breaking point...