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...Said Columnist David Lawrence, edging out on a limb: "Notwithstanding the opposition of the Republican politicians, the nomination of Wendell Willkie, which was believed impossible a few weeks ago, is decidedly within the realm of a possibility today...
...tools, dies, and machines for making airplane motors passed through Washington, Russia-bound. Equally confusing was it that, after 3,500 American Youth Congress members in their New York convention had booed President Roosevelt's defense program, Mrs. Roosevelt addressed the brattish assembly, with kindly reproof. Snorted testy Columnist Frank Kent: "In view of the striking record of hostility toward the Dies Committee of the Department of Justice, the President and the President's wife, to say nothing of the extraordinary White House coddling of such Communist-saturated organizations as the American Youth Congress and the Workers Alliance...
Commented Columnist Raymond Clapper two days later: "That is a long sentence. But it would become a historic one should we get into this war, for it is the most aggressive call that has echoed from any official source since the last war ended. . . . He stopped just short of calling for a declaration of war against Germany...
Here's where our eagle-eyed football reporter comes into the picture. Diamond defeats plus player trouble equals news for Dave Glueck '39, former substitute guard under Dick Harlow and currently a Boston American sports columnist. Coaching troubles are right down Glueck's alley; whenever he sees a losing team, he knows it must be the coach's fault. Already he has worked out an elaborate succession for Dick Harlow's post as head football coach at Harvard, including Chief Boston, Skip Stahley, Joe Nee, Alex Kevorkian, and a few other Crimson grid lumninaries...
...Columnist Westbrook Pegler led his column: "Now, just a minute. Wait a minute!" New York City's waddly Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia griped that the U. S. couldn't even protect Coney Island...