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Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...
...time after graduation, Gould earned his living by reviewing books. "Now," he says, "book reviewing is done by machines," and he considers himself a victim of technological unemployment. For many years he has devoted himself to the epic "Oral History," which he describes as a compendium, seemingly endless, of everything he has seen himself or been told first-hand in all parts of the world...
From the U.S. First Army, fighting towards Cologne last week, came what one correspondent called "a minor epic" of the war. It concerned the building of a bridge. A small column of 8th Division infantry had a fingerhold across the Erft Canal. Ahead of them, the Germans were gathering tanks for a counterattack. Behind them, U.S. combat engineers were building the bridge, to bring up armor to support the infantry...
...101st Airborne and the others, along with a sky full of trigger-happy pilots, had created another epic of U.S. arms at Bastogne. They had never let the enemy seriously penetrate their outposts. They had punished him severely. The ground forces alone had destroyed 148 tanks and the German dead were counted in thousands. Bastogne's defenders had made possible a tactical success that might be turned into a large-scale victory...
...newest translation of the Iliad stands among the best ever made. It is the only one ever carried through in an English equivalent of the Greek epic meter...