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...people remembered, and were reminded of Pearl Harbor-but this wasn't the same; the shock wasn't so great, and in nine years everybody had learned something about taking crisis news in stride. Rather than feeling alarm at the risks, many seemed to be grateful for the end of an era of uncertainty. The Christian Science Monitor's Washington bureau chief, Joseph C. Harsch, a resident of the capital for 20 years, reported: "Never before in that time have I felt such a sense of relief and unity pass through the city...
...Wrote Combat's critic: "Martha, by her continuous internal tension, as in a trance, is able to communicate all the scale of human sentiments." Le Monde found that 'those naked feet lifted, brandished menacingly ... end by being an obsession." Martha Graham took this French coolness in her stride. "You see," she said, "it's a universal problem. Some like it;' others don't like it; and others are puzzled . . . It's like modern music and art. We have sometimes to wait...
...peak of her career last week, eight-year-old Proximity was rapidly becoming the Man o' War of trotting. Just shipped east from Santa Anita, where she cracked three world records (and won $28,000), Proximity's 1950 Eastern debut kept her winning stride unbroken. Her mile last week was clocked in 2:01 1/5, a new world record (by 1/10th of a second) for a half-mile track...
Then he sat down to explain why he was abandoning all claim to the most powerful governorship in the U.S. at an age (48) when most politicos are just hitting their stride. First, his blood pressure was low from fatigue, and the bursitis in his right shoulder had reduced his usual eight-hour nightly sleep to two or three. Then there was money: after taxes on his $25,000 governor's salary, he had hardly enough to support the family and put his two sons (ages: 14 and 17) through college. He had been offered the presidency...
...bestseller lists. Like its predecessor, it is rich with authentic Americana and bulging with violence, drama and seething characters. But it is also a strangely uneven novel which wades through all the conventional heroics and posturings of the mine-run historical novel before it finally hits its stride...