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...aboard for Manhattan's tabloid PM. Presumably with the aid of U.S. Zionists, he had joined an illegal group "somewhere in Europe," accompanied them from station to station by land, and through the British blockade by sea. For hardworking, squirrelly, 38-year-old Izzy Stone, whose usual dish of tea is badgering U.S. Secretaries of State at press conferences, it was an offbeat adventure. For PM, which makes a play for New York City's 2,000,000 Jews, Izzy's journey had the promise of some first-rate news beats...
Soon after the trains stopped running last week, President Truman went to a White House garden party, sipped some lemonade and calmly ate a dish of ice cream. It was a party for disabled war veterans, arranged several weeks before. Harry Truman shook hands with some 900 wounded men, many of them in wheel chairs. One disabled man asked the President how the railroad strike was going. Said Harry Truman: it was still...
...Manhattan, it was the highly touted heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Bruce Woodcock, an ex-Yorkshire railroad hand. Against tubby Tami Mauriello, No. 3 U.S. heavyweight, Woodcock showed he could dish it out, but he failed to keep after his man when he had him on the run. In the fifth round, the two were drubbing away at each other's midsections when Mauriello suddenly lifted his fire and landed on Woodcock's jaw. The Englishman, unbeaten in 25 fights, went down and tottered up a little too late. The referee had already counted...
...obviously been homesick for his native land, but when he got to his family home in the green Po Valley, he soon seemed homesick for the U.S. He sighed to friends of New York's climate and California's wines, and whispered wistfully over a dish of spaghetti: "But you should taste the spaghetti in the United States...
...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...