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...Tinker's Dam. Had 1946 ended as it began, Molotov would have been the year's man. He rode the postwar Russian flood, whipping it with a hard wind of propaganda. It welled up to the Persian plateau 22 miles from Teheran; it seeped deeply into China, licked at Tripolitania, reached for the Dardanelles, almost engulfed Trieste, soaked Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, threatened Germany, Austria, and even (through Russia's Communist Parties) Italy and France...
Byrnes at 67 had accomplished the big job of 1946, and in so doing he had grown in stature more than any other public figure of the year. As the year began many regarded him as a mere fixer. Yet by patient, purposeful tinkering with the details of the satellite treaties, he managed to get over to the Russians and the world that the U.S. had planted the weight of its power in the path of the Russian advance. What Jimmy said about Trieste and freedom of the Danube had its effect on bigger issues, such as the Russian...
Hard-working Charles Denny puts in a full day at his office, takes home a briefcase of work, cannot get away from radio even when at play. A favorite diversion: to tinker at home with his AM, FM, shortwave and television sets...
...solution to the whole problem, it would seem, is merely to abbreviate sports pages in off-season periods. To tell a veteran of the Tinker to Evers to Chance school that it is unnecessary to express himself when there is nothing to say--unless he possesses the imagination and ability of the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith, who is probably the best working sports columnist of the day--may sound like heresy, but it's undoubtedly better than myopic gaves into an athletic crystal ball...
Dave Farrell, Bill Fitz, and various combinations and permutations thereof were just a little too much for the sailors. The two players hit pay-dirt twice on their own. In the opening minutes of play the Chief Boston equivalent of Tinker to Evers was uncorked for the first tally. Bucky Harrison's cold toe failed to convert, but it warmed to its work on the next three...