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...high powwow. The hoboes were glad to be back in Britt (pop.: 2,000), where they had met off & on since 1900. The "big spuds" (city officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain a hobo...
...played hunches and hustle all season. If the mood came over him, he would take out a batter who already had two strikes on him, put in a pinch hitter Says he: "I just get a feeling." He kept his bullpen in a stew: sometimes, against a single batter, he deliberately used one pitcher for a fast ball, another for a curve. For 15 weeks, with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making...
Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...
...Fiorello LaGuardia and he was fuming over a foaming glass of beer in Czechoslovakia (see FOREIGN NEWS). But last week dumpy Butch LaGuardia, who has been wont to characterize New York City's leading Democrats as "those political bums," bobbed up in the middle of a meaty Democratic stew. No Democrat at all (he is a member of the American Labor Party), he was suddenly a darling of the Democratic bigwigs and a leading contender for their U.S. Senate nomination...
...despite these racy blessings, the novel is dull going. Diligently describing the European stew in Hitler's first year, whole pages are devoted to such passages as this: "In every issue touching monetary policy, disarmament, and the consolidation of world peace, it appears that Great Britain ... is less and less willing to take any step except with the full agreement of the United States. ... I find myself in complete agreement with Great Britain...