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Figaro frankly admitted that it had not checked either. Its excuse was that the Doussinague memoirs had been published a year ago, that the State Department knew of the letter, and yet no U.S. official had bothered to brand it a fake. The State Department's lame excuse: the memoirs had not been brought to the attention of anyone "in authority." But none of these excuses absolved the Hearst papers for failure to question their story before printing...
Radcliffe's lame duck Student Council made a farewell gesture yesterday afternoon, in recommending that group tutorial be made available to all group four students, and to group five students who are interested...
...Another lame duck from the old 81st Congress combed the birdshot from his feathers last week and limped back into action. South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney, who lost his Senate seat to Isolationist Francis Case in a primary election last spring, won his reward for loyal support of Administration defense programs on the Armed Services Committee. The reward: a presidential appointment to fill out the remaining 22 months of a vacant seat on the Civil Aeronautics Board. Salary: $15,000 a year...
...Vanderbilt, show money was small consolation: in making her final bid, Bed Roses, top two-year-old filly of 1949 pulled up lame with a spread hoof. If she had been able to finish on four good legs instead of three and a heart, she might have...
...first two lame ducks from the old 81st Congress limped down off Capitol Hill last week and slid into jobs that fitted them as neatly as their pinfeathers...