Word: wonderboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Ohio. John Bricker was by no means dead and buried. Ready to run for the Senate next year, he was an almost certain winner unless Ohio's Governor Lausche, the Democrats' wonderboy, ran against him. One high-placed Republican who keeps his finger wetted to the political winds thought that if a G.O.P. presidential convention were held today, John Bricker would win, hands down...
...committed the high journalistic sin of describing an event before it happened. His column, written three days before the Term IV inaugural but published two days after it, told how Franklin Roosevelt "played his part in the ritual like a veteran bridegroom. I was there. . . ." In his second try, Wonderboy Welles professed accurate knowledge of what Stalin had told his Big Three partners-at Teheran, Churchill and Roosevelt had wanted to refer a matter to their experts; Stalin rejoined: "Can't we three decide anything...