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...things got straightened out last night in this case of Fisher vs, the Harvard Young Republican Club. All of them fall into one basic, unpleasant pattern. It is a pattern of guilt on both sides. The Club has been guilty of various underhanded political machinations--the sort of maneuvering that probably goes on in all the big undergraduate political organizations, but that has never before become general knowledge. What is more serious, it has also been guilty of encouraging Fisher, whether officially or unofficially, to do some of the things he has done. Fisher, on his side, has been guilty...
...great, bloody battle around Suchow had produced a familiar pattern. Fast-moving Communist columns had swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...
...Pattern. To fight the Star, McCullagh promised to get the Telegram out of its old rut of playing to Toronto's arch-Tories, Imperialists and anti-Catholic Orange order. Said he: "The Globe & Mail will be the pattern, particularly in such things as ... racial and religious prejudice...
...counter the circulation of the flamboyant Star, Publisher McCullagh would need a big pattern. In twelve years as publisher of the Globe & Mail, he had added only 21,697 to the circulation he started with. In the same period, the highflying Star had caught 121,059 new subscribers; even the slow-poking Telegram had gained 42,290. The figures did not faze bellicose George. Said he: "The smart talk will soon be about the waning Star...
...dank hair at his constituents. Some three-syllable words like "constructive" and "progressive" even slipped into his speech. Some Georgians wondered hopefully if Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill's prophecy of last September might not be true: "What appears to be the greatest triumph of the old pattern in the South is actually its death struggle...