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...someone charged that Nelson knew nothing about the sea." "Is this the end of a legend?" asked a sign printed in scarlet letters in the window of Foyle's, London's leading bookstore. In press, radio and TV, the nation's sharpest-penned and sharpest-tongued controversialists argued the question...
...General George B. McClellan, who set about failing in politics as he had in war. Since that unhappy lesson, the Democrats have held their conventions earlier. Last week, however, new National Chairman Paul Butler announced that the 1956 convention will start Monday, Aug. 27, so as to pack the sharpest television punch into a two-month campaign...
...Haven swimming mart, Ulen has been a neglected coach, underrated even by himself. Nobody noticed particularly when the Crimson swimmers defeated Dartmouth last February, 49 to 35. But the varsity had no right to win that one on the basis of manpower. It won through one of the sharpest coaching performances of the year...
...late. The Tiltons were great pals of the suffragettes, and Mrs. Tilton's secret became known to the sharpest battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life...
...passing is the Indians sharpest tomahawk, it has been badly chipped by the injury of alternate quarterback Leo McKenna. McKenna at his best with short spot passes completed 41 out of 71 last season, and was a better defensive back than Beagle...