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When minimum space has been devoted by the press to a speech by the Vice-President of the United States, and when that speech concerns relationships with one of our staunchest allies, thoughts which might mold the future are being black-penciled by the hand of complacency. Two nights ago, Henry A Wallace spoke courageously and objectively to a group of Americans, correlating the aims of Soviet Russia with the basic principles of democracy we have bruited abroad fro decades. But Walface's post-war implications will be discounted by the majority of the American people, only partially because...
When Manager Billy Southworth chose the Beaze for the second game of the series, even his staunchest admirers feared he would blow up with World Series jitters. The kid was walloped for ten hits, got into one jam after another, but at the last out he was still on the mound, the first rookie to win a Series game since Paul Dean trimmed the Detroit Tigers for St. Louis...
...only the staunchest Administration followers in Congress were willing to take all the blame lying down. The President had never presented a real, urgent price bill to his Congress. The bill that became law last January-containing the 110% parity provision -had gone to Congress so full of Administration compromises with labor and farm groups as to be almost an invitation to further watering-down...
...seems that hard work does not always go unrewarded, for after years of valiant effort, David W. Bailey, the University's energetic publications agent, and Harvard's staunchest alphabet supporter, has at last realized his cherished ambition, and has alphabetized the catalogue...
...Fields under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves wrote "Bank Dick," he played the lead, and he directed the director. That should be warning enough for anyone not a slapstick fanatic; and even Fields' staunchest fans will long for a goat-in-the-boudoir-of-Mac-West scene like that which marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon...