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...Curtin to help him form a national Government for the war's duration, Curtin refused, said that Labor's duty was to form a critical opposition. But many observers believed that Curtin had another, more urgent reason to decline. Powerful as the Labor forces were, they were split, and Curtin did not want the embarrassment of governmental responsibility...
...Prime Minister Fadden his new job is perfect evidence of his prime political ability to be at the right place at the right time. Last September, after only four years in Parliament, he was the handiest man around when the Country Party leadership split. Put in as Party Leader as a compromise, he did such a good job politically and as Australia's Treasurer that he is now solidly in command of the Party...
...course, said Dr. Myerson, if one looks far enough, there is plenty of insanity in every family. What distinguishes the New England Brahmins is a scarcity of schizophrenia (split personality), idiocy and other forms of elation and despair, whose "fundamental basis," said Dr. Myerson, "is an inherited constitution." In the mad New Englanders this inheritance was intensified by a high degree of intermarriage. One distinguished family has had 16 inmates in McLean Hospital...
...with cagey Cardinal Manager Southworth starting two southpaws (poison to the Dodgers' three left-handed power hitters), "them Bums" were lucky to break even-3-to-7, 3-to-2. In the second doubleheader, it was do or die for Brooklyn. But the best they could do was split it again...
Left entirely independent was Mr. Henderson's Office of Price Administration (OPA). Prices will still be managed by Leon Henderson, who became a split personality. He will be his own liaison man between his two selves, managing civilian supply from his vantage point on the SPABoard, controlling prices from a vantage point...