Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays' standing, left his bed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital just to be there...
...meat; this week they would get better food, and more of it. The blockade had shut down much of Berlin's industry, thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
Home & to Bed. Campanella got to be a catcher for two reasons: 1) he was a born athlete and 2) none of the other kids in his Philadelphia neighborhood ever wanted to catch. In his junior year at Simon Gratz High School (where he had already won letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba...
...this year) haven't made much difference in Campy's style of living. With his wife Ruthe and four children (two of them girls) he lives in a white clapboard house in St. Albans, Queens, goes in for big plates of Ruthe's spaghetti, gets to bed most nights by 10 p.m. and is up by 6 a.m.: "In my house," he says, "you got to keep regular hours. The baby, Roy Jr., he's up by then and hittin' the bottle...
...Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen out of bed...