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...eleven-car special for Philadelphia and the Army-Navy game, accompanied by a 200-member party which included most of his official family and their wives. The Trumans sat in the front row on the Army side, stayed there throughout the game. His knees wrapped in an electric blanket, the President cheered with careful impartiality. At the half, he munched sandwiches and matched grins with General Dwight Eisenhower for news pictures...
Century of Progress. In New Britain, Conn., manufacturers Landers, Frary & Clark proudly reported the sale of an electric blanket to a Sioux Indian...
...seldom dispensed with as much ease except in a rare novel or motion picture. Such a picture is "Frieda" that may be considered all the more exceptional for having come out of war-scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...
...blanket endorsement of the general principles behind the Truman-Marshall foreign policy, Schlesinger told an informal audience in Adams House that forthright support of the Marshall Plan is our only chance of creating a stable and democratic world...
...believe that higher pay for teachers when given as blanket increases will do little to increase their knowledge or efficiency. Higher pay and promotion should be based on ability -on results...