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Phil Murray was just back from ten days in Florida, looking fitter than usual. The lines were gone from around his brown eyes and his firm mouth. Behind the big walnut desk in his green-walled office looking out on Washington's Jackson Place and the White House, he was every inch the boss...
...eared Bill Talbert, unbeaten in nine tune-up tournaments, admitted that his game was better than ever; the 64th United States Lawn Tennis Champion ships looked like a breeze. Then Sergeant Frank Parker flew in from Guam, 10 lbs. thinner and fitter, razor-sharp from Marianas matches with Wayne Sabin, Don Budge and Bobby Riggs. Said Singles Champion Parker: "My game is better than ever...
...writing them, which is part of the cure. You will get the whole thing out of your system. And I shall have so much fun tearing them up that I shall probably feel better, too. In this way we shall all save our reason and between us build a fitter, happier, saner world to face the terrors of peace...
...office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...
...have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...