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...Deal Chicago Sun revived a six months' old anecdote, retold it as a choice bit of gossip. Said the Sun's Inside Washington column: When President Roosevelt was in Casablanca, General de Gaulle remarked that the French people regarded him as the spirit of Joan of Arc. Later, he let drop the comment that the French people thought of him as the reincarnation of Napoleon. To which Franklin Roosevelt jabbed: "General, I think you should make up your mind...
While Harris worked on the Philly players, Owner Cox took pains to build up the morale of the Philly fans. He bought newspaper space for heart-to-heart talks with them, bought radio time for the broadcasting of team gossip. During games he has the current batting averages of each player posted on the Scoreboard. For future customers, he has started the publication of a sports weekly called The Scoreboard, to be distributed free (through relatives and friends) to members of the armed forces...
...lunchrooms, gas stations, stores, and in Oklahoma's Indian schools to hear their program. They generally get a brief resume of what Joe Yellow Horse, Chauncy Matlock, Sleeping Rain or some other Indian boy is doing in the Pacific or North Africa. They hear the latest Indian gossip, news on Indian affairs, many a tall tale from an elder brave...
...Instead of talking complacently about the glories of the U.S. educational system, women might "concern themselves with their community schools" and raise the pay of women teachers. They might also try to help marital problems at their youthful source, by supplying, in place of the "appalling hodge-podge of gossip, inanities, and ragtags of talk," the kind of mental nourishment that would help Junior and Junior Miss really to grow up some...
...months past, rumors of military misdoings had been piling up around Selfridge Field, Mich. Griping and gossip centered on ugly stories of unsoldierly behavior, favoritism, trading in promotions and bombproof jobs. Then came the most fantastic rumor of all: that the commander of the field, a full colonel, had been arrested for shooting a Negro private...