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There was never a livelier opening day, but there were still 153 games for each club to play. Yet at first week's end, the favorites were still far behind. In the National League the Reds were in next-to-last place (with only one victory in five games), the Dodgers were fourth, and the Giants, brusquely brushed off as a second-division team in last winter's Hot Stove League, were out in front with five victories...
...Last week he had reached the next-to-last stage in dealing with the Balkan nations. To get what he wanted-a solid Europe and a sure shield around his Achilles' heel, Salonika-he might have to wait for spring weather. But he had the Balkans convinced that the kill was imminent. Feb. 25, some whispered; March 1, others said; soon, all agreed...
Only three weeks ago, the Redskins had taken the Bears 7-to-3. They had just averted defeat, to be sure, with a miraculous tackle on the one-yard line in the next-to-last play of the game. But the score is what counts. Thus Washington residents, from Cabinet members to White House flunkeys, mesmerized by the big talk of the Redskins' Big Chief, George P. Marshall, trooped into Griffith Park last week, convinced that it was all over but the whoopee, and all set to drape the Washington Monument with red bunting after the game...
...sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...
...Washington last week, the senior officer of the U. S. was Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Every one above him was out of town. But more importantly active than Mr. Edison in Franklin Roosevelt's absence was Mrs. President Roosevelt, who went to bat cleverly in her column to defend an act of her husband's which had stirred the country to its grass roots: shifting Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the next-to-last (TIME...