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...peoples of the democracies, and weak nations (which eventually would have to choose sides if the titans should split) could find hope in one thought: that however gruff and bluff nations may act in a serious dispute, they can often reach a settlement at the eleventh hour when they have tested each other's intentions. But it was about quarter to eleven...
Never was a college year more neatly split in two than was Harvard's in 1945-46, an academic period that displayed to nobody's surprise the enormous gulf between the University in war and the University in Peace...
...social gatherings (he still thinks he's pretty good at it). He watched the pigeons of his village win the Sunday afternoon races. (He says the Noyelle pigeons still win.) He became a Socialist at 19, a union leader before he was 21. When the French Socialists split down the middle on the question of affiliating with the Communist International, Thorez was on the left. When he was 25 he was a member of the Political Bureau...
After 1925, when he moved to New York, Joe Patterson and Bertie McCormick divided the Medill dynasty into two spheres. Their profits ran as high as $10,000,000 a year. They split the income with Cissie Patterson and Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Together they founded Liberty magazine, ran up a $14 million loss in seven years, sold...
...about this point, Claudette and her two Marine friends drift into an oldtime, lickety-split movie chase. The untiring, juvenile monkeyshines of the three unmistakably mature principals keep reminding you that their combined ages must total something over a century...