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...Politician Harry Truman had counted on Congress picking up the cue and becoming his supporting cast in a last-minute rescue, he soon learned his mistake. Within a few minutes after hearing his message, the House-by a margin of 38 votes-sustained the veto. The Senate turned down a resolution that would have extended the present law temporarily. It required unanimous consent-and Texan O'Daniel immediately objected. At midnight, 34 hours later, OPA died...
...Soviet press and radio, taking its cue from Molotov, blamed "the Anglo-Saxon bloc" for the deadlock. A fortnight ago Ernest Bevin had told the House of Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
Shanghai's municipal government, noted for its frequent banquets, promptly took the cue. It called a meeting of the local New Life Movement, adopted the slogan "Early to bed, early to rise," pledged tea parties instead of feasts, with no serving of wine or "offering of cigarets." For officials who clasp austerity to their bosoms, the Movement proposed a medal of honor and laudatory notice in the public prints...
They tried batting left handed. They tried batting loft handed with one hand. They tried running backwards. They tried running backwards on one leg. Eventually they got around to using the bat as a billiard cue and fielding the ball from the tail...
...love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...