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Everyone in the United Press knew of Ray's perfectly swell job in locating this story long before the wire opened. . . . You may be sure that I gave full credit to Ray at the time, so that he received the congratulations from the bosses...
...about polities. I don't know anything about politics. What's been happening lately? Singapore just fell? O.K. Give me a typewriter. . . . Hey, fellas, whaddaya know! Hippocrates G. Apostle just got out of Stillman! . . . Well, well,--so Johnnie Robbine is dead . . . Parson Fenn say's he's got a swell idea for an ed on the town-grown relationship . . . Hey, Charlie! How about chewing gum? . . . Let's defend the pipe . . . It's Lincoln's birthday tomorrow; we might run condolences for all his friends and relatives . . . 125,000 Babies by 1943 . . . Hey! I'm on Dean's List...
Smith is sure that Hitler, "the phenomenal Cinderella-boy from Braunau, has had a swell time." But, because of the failure in Russia, the Home Front's decline, and the growing disunity in the nation, "it would appear to be getting on toward midnight. Even with his expertness at it, it is highly unlikely that he can turn this particular clock back...
...swell his repertory, Goldman has composed 85 marches himself. Most popular of his marches is On the Mall. Written for the dedication of a new bandstand in Central Park, it so displeased Goldman that he shelved it. When he finally tried it out at an open-air concert, he directed with one hand, held his nose with the other. The roar of applause so surprised him that he nearly reeled off the stand...
Biographer Forbes catches some of the vitality of that line in her account of the ride and of the ground swell of war that began the next day. Her Battle of Lexington, even more than her description of the Boston Massacre, is a superb piece of historical writing...