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Although Knowland did not commit himself, news of the Taft offer buzzed across the long-distance grapevine and irked even some of Taft's close friends. Knowland, 44, ranks 17th on the Republican seniority list. Why, asked the G.O.P. seniors, should Knowland be catapulted into the policy chairmanship over such venerable heads as Colorado's Eugene Millikin, ranked eighth, or Nebraska's Hugh Butler, fifth? There was no doubt that Bob Taft could corral enough votes to get the job if he wanted to fight for it. In the interests of party harmony, however, the odds grew...
During 4½ years as mayor of New York, Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer often seemed to be doing his bullheaded best to commit political suicide. He made an enemy of President Harry Truman by publicly opposing him as a candidate before the 1948 Democratic Convention. He feuded with reporters. He enraged millions of his fellow citizens in the summer of 1950-when the district attorney began unearthing corruption in New York-by staging the biggest police funeral in city history for a captain who had put a bullet through his head while under investigation...
...bought his stubby, broad-beamed ketch a year before. Originally named the "Soubrette" (meaning "handmaiden"), it was rechristened by Davis the "Miru," who according to a Polynessian legend is the daughter of the Sun God. She had eight brothers, all of whom were commanded by the sun God to commit incest with her; other than her mother, Miru unfortunately was the only woman on the earth at the time. Miru produced the ancestors of the Polynessian race...
Steve Joyce scored the Crimson's fourth goal five minutes later. All alone at the right of the cage, Joyce waited for goalie Tauro to commit himself and then shot a slow roller into the far corner, making the score 4 to 1 at halftime. With six minutes gone in the third period, Vreeland scored his second goal, drawing Brown to within two goals, but Berk Johnson countered shortly after to give the Crimson a seemingly comfortable 5 to 2 margin...
...over a slick journalistic trick well played, there was one small worry: Reporter Kellerman was still charged with burglary. Kellerman already had his defense figured out. He contended that before he can be convicted of burglary, the police must prove he had broken into the bar with "intent to commit a crime." Said he: "I had no such intent. My only intent was to get a good story." Nevertheless, at week's end Reporter Kellerman faced trial for third-degree burglary and a maximum term of ten years, if convicted...