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...reported total of 139 eggs, tomatoes and other missiles were thrown during the presidential campaign (not including the final week). Of these, 84 eggs, 40 tomatoes, 4 peaches, 2 lemons, 1 orange, and 1 bun were aimed at Henry Wallace. He was hit by 5 eggs and 4 tomatoes. Two eggs splashed on his plane, 2 on his auto, 2 on his train and 1 struck the manuscript he was reading. One egg and 5 tomatoes were thrown at Governor Thomas E. Dewey. No hits. One pop bottle was thrown at President Harry Truman during his parade in Indianapolis...
Even mooncakes were affected. Where formerly there had been cakes as big around as a table and stuffed with whole hams, chickens and dozens of eggs, all cakes will now be held down to bun size...
...coup itself had been orderly (one of the plotters described it as "very straightforward and very kind-hearted") but a little hard for Westerners to understand. The first point to get straight is that all Siamese politics turns around the rivalry between royalist Field Marshal Phibun (pronounced "fee bun") Songgram and republican Pridi Banomyong, who both went to school in France in the 1920s. The coup simply put Phibun's men in, tossed Pridi Banomyong...
Postcards & Turtledoves. As the 278-year-old process* ended in the Holy City last week, Roman citizens had a field day with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...
...Sarah Blanding joined Cornell's faculty. The next year she became the first woman dean of Cornell's New York State College of Home Economics. She looked pretty austere when she arrived, with her hair done up in a bun, and no hat. But Cornell coeds soon found that the stern face softened easily into a friendly, crooked smile. Until Dean Blanding marched in with her spaniel Shadow, no dog had ever crossed the decorous threshold of Cornell's Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Within a week dogs were almost as common there as professors. Each spring...