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...blue ribbons at the Monroe County Fair: for his baking-powder biscuits, chocolate cake, spice cake and berry pie. His apple pie was only third. Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist ice cream and potato salad...
...Task Force Kean"* (the 35th Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division, the 5th Regimental Combat Team and elements of the 1st Marine Division which landed last fortnight) jumped off, Negro units holding a flanking ridge were due to be relieved by marines. But alert North Koreans slipped in, beat back the marines, brought up machine guns and artillery, opened fire on the vehicle-crammed road and on U.S. artillery positions and command posts...
...great many other Americans felt the same way. For the past fortnight that Russian face on the nation's television screens blocked not only Howdy Doody, but such other favorites as Lucky Pup, and Life with Snarky Parker. But the show that replaced them-a curious mixture of boredom and excitement, alternating long-winded oratory with sharp, electrifying statements of historic rights & wrongs-was definitely worth America's while. To millions of Americans it brought the unique experience of seeing the enemy right in their living room...
Dancing in the Wind. One evening last fortnight, a wandering TIME correspondent found the whole population of San Pedro, on Lake Titicaca, dancing in the waterfront plaza. Nobody seemed to notice the icy winds whistling off the lake. The mayor and all the other officials were looping. The only sober man in town was the innkeeper, a young Croat refugee...
Will U.S. railroads make the grade again, if World War III comes? President William T. Faricy, of the Association of American Railroads, thinks they can. Testifying before Congress last spring, he said: "There need be little apprehension ... the railroads [can] meet traffic requirements arising from a national emergency." A fortnight ago, after another look at requirements, Faricy called a special meeting of the A.A.R., and got a pledge from the railroads that they would build 10,000 cars a month until the supply is boosted...