Last week the Japs again used one of their advantages: they know more about Americans and American idiom than the U.S. can ever know about "the monkey men." In a broadcast beamed to the U.S., Tokyo quipped:
"Soon after the surrender of Badoglio there was born in America the phrase, 'One down and two to go.'. . . But American baseball fans should know better. 'One down and two to go doesn't mean much if the next up are Lou Gehrig and Joe Di Maggio. . . .
"The two big hitters are ... up and the bases are full, so the...
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