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Much more interested in catering to his consuming urge to win than in winning friends, Robinson played anywhere he was told-first, second, third, outfield-and proved one of the sharpest spurs to six Dodgers pennants in ten years, as well as one of baseball's prime drawing cards. Said onetime Giant Manager Leo Durocher: "He can beat you in more ways than any player I know...
...editorial comment on Britain's attack on Suez, Socialist Vicky was, as usual, Fleet Street's sharpest mocksman -because he saw the British as they do not like to see themselves. To Vicky, 42, Sir Anthony Eden is a toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time...
Unique Capacity. This was the sharpest attack on Russia that Nehru has made, and next day the Times of India happily hailed it with the headline, EMOTIONAL BIAS IN FOREIGN POLICY GIVEN UP. In cold fact, the praise was only partly earned. For every admission of Russian guilt that Nehru made, there was an offsetting reference to Anglo-French guilt in Egypt. At least once Nehru seemed to imply that the invasion of Egypt was morally worse, saying: "There was no immediate aggression [in Hungary] as there was in the case of Egypt...
...nightingale . . ." And when he published his next volume: "The Professor has a creamy new volume of verses out . . . the cream of thought being somewhat thinner than that of the binding." But when, in 1843, Fanny finally said yes. she loyally ended her role as one of Henry's sharpest critics. Her letters show that their happiness was nearly total, for whatever Longfellow was as a poet, he was a dedicated husband...
...sharpest growth in the Service's history has taken place during the past two years, since Dana L. Farnsworth succeeded Arlie V. Bock as head of the University Health Services. During 1953-1954, Gaylord P. Coon, Chief of Psychiatry since 1946 and the only full-time psychiatrist, and other, part-time, psychiatrists saw a little over 500 patients, a decrease from the previous year. In 1954-55, Farnsworth's first year, Coon was still the only full-time man, and the Service saw nearly 600 people. Last year, the staff had been expanded to include four full-time psychiatrists, three...