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...abuse of the sporting world as represented by the public press. Had the affair been publicly left to die a natural death, the course taken by Princeton authorities whose athletes and coach shared in the Placid debacle, a far from unusual collegiate happening would have met its merited fate...
...Filipino leaders, important as they are, whose impending fate disturbed the U.S. It was the Filipino people. Will they hold out against the brutalities-or, more likely, the blandishments-of their Japanese conquerors? That was a question which could not be answered off the cuff...
...view, the attack on the Soviet Union was a mad action-the action of a criminal who is driven by fate always to make good the effects of his first crime by a second crime and then by further crimes until the final catastrophe...
...fate of Kuala Lumpur, gateway to Singapore and rubber capital of the world, remained in doubt. Though it obviously was in grave peril from the Japanese thrust down from the Slim River, available reports implied that it was still in British hands...
...brief biography of his life. Back goes the camera into his well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate: a cushioned middle age, the deadly divinity of trivial things...