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...They should hang the man," he said, in words touched by the Italian accents of his youth. "He is a no-good son of a bitch. I should pull the rope. This is too much of a trial. They should never give him a trial. They never trialed us. They killed people like flies. Send...
...such tunes as Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Bill, Only Make Believe, have ever really waned in popularity-and 01' Man River has become more famous than most folk songs. Back in their original places, the tunes have almost all their original pull. One new song, Nobody Else but Me, which Composer Kern wrote before his death last fall, finds itself in too fast company...
...thought it might be a good idea to incorporate all the time-tested chestnuts they could think of. They were confident that stringing all the horse-opera clichés together and playing them straight would be parody enough. Explains Fessier: "We grooved the tongue in the cheek. Why pull punches? We gave them everything...
...were knocked to their knees by the heaviest burden of all: a record-breaking blizzard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The New York Central's Gardenville yards, a key point just outside of Buffalo, were buried under five feet of snow. In one day, only two freight trains managed to pull out of Gardenville, which normally handles 50 to 60 trains a day. At sidings throughout the north and east, tired, cursing railroadmen struggled to throw switches half covered with snow and ice, kept on the job 16 hours a day. Thousands of men were recruited to dig out the railroads...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...