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Dazed but unrepentant, Broadway Columnist Ed Sullivan began and ended a piece by asking with a silly smirk: "Wha' Hoppened?" The Alsop brothers, who had considerably more reason to ask, airily wired their editors that "these particular reporters prefer their crow fricasseed...
...Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, on Election Day: "Dewey's first official act as President-elect will be to name a new Secretary of State...
...tiny handful of prophets had escaped being caught with their pants down. On the Truman campaign train, a few days before the election, Columnist Jay Franklin, now a Truman speech writer, had bet newsmen that Truman would win with at least 278 electoral votes. Jack Kroll, director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, also had declared: "Truman is going to win in spite of what the polls say. The polls [are] cockeyed...
...Cracked the wife of New York Post Home News Columnist Leonard Lyons: "Crow will be selling wholesale today...
...return, at 34, was another piece of evidence that big-time boxing was on the ropes. In Manhattan, Sport Columnist Jimmy Cannon, an old fight fan, got so wrought up about it that he predicted: "The fight racket is perishing . . . and in our time will be an obsolete sport...