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...Stow-The foive and doyme...
...near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh cuts of beef, complete with faked, blue government-inspection stamps...
...hucksters, Sunday afternoon is known as an "intellectual ghetto" where the networks stow their small sops to the minority. Thus when two unsponsored NBC shows landed quietly in the ghetto this week, it was not surprising that both turned out to be far more impressive than the season's new commercial fare (see below). Wisdom, a filmed series of interviews with "the world's foremost seminal doers and thinkers," and Look Here!, a live, remote interview show with public figures, proved again that the most effective TV comes straight from life...
...left-wing viewers-with-alarm begged Harry Truman to stow the A-bomb away in the national attic. The Russians, they said, could not possibly develop the bomb for at least a decade. Truman refused -and the Soviet Union, depending heavily on Joseph Stalin's army of scientists and his very effective spies, came forth with the atomic bomb in 1949. Again, the hand-wringers pleaded with Truman not to go ahead with the H-bomb. Truman did go ahead-and because he did, the U.S. got under the wire by a few short months and escaped the earth...
...list of Wishes That Oughta Be: Naturally, all of them will come true since everyone-coaches, players, even the referees--have been good fellows this season. And if they don't, it's obviously the fault of the bad boys over in the HAA who somehow made a stow with those football tickets...