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Sulks & Snarls. But taken in the round, the record was the full answer to Harry Truman's irresponsible blurt. Congress did not need the replies in kind that some of its members delivered. Majority Leader Charley Halleck said: "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word...
...which are, in effect, ballet solos on ice-are less daring than some skaters'. But there the likeness ends. Barbara Ann usually manages to say the right thing (or at least the polite thing). When something irked Sonja, and many things did, she was more than apt to blurt: "It stinks...
...Russian zonal press growled that the audience had reacted with paraphrase of Nazi slogans to a Hitlerite speech; but three days later Russia permitted its pet party, the Communist-run SED, to blurt out an announcement of a Russian new deal in the Soviet zone. Some of the promises: reduction in reparations from current production; a 200-300% increase of the zone's industrial level; abolition of the lowest ("starvation") ration card. Meanwhile, the Russians also appeared to be softening somewhat (at least on the surface) in London...
...Blurt v. Blurb...
Thank you for clearing the mystery of the missing Mr. Hollenbeck, sometime newscaster for WJZ [TIME, Aug. 26]. If Radio should have a Man of the Year, he has one solid family vote on two counts: superior presentation of the news; and the long-suppressed blurt against noxious commercials, which apparently cost him that...