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Some men would have been ready to throw in the sponge. Few U.S. Presidents have ever been jeered at the way Harry Truman was jeered at last week. New Dealing Columnist Samuel Grafton mocked: "Poor Mr. Truman . . . an object for pity." The New Dealing Chicago Sun ran a merciless cartoon in clay (see cut). The lowest blow came from that low-blow expert, the Chicago Tribune. Squinting at the President, the Tribune pretended to see Edgar Bergen's Mortimer Snerd. Sample dialogue...
...Buick was Virginia-born, 29-year-old Daniel Gillmor, editor & publisher of the late, Communist-line magazine Friday. An amiable State Department employe, Bill Nelson, had come along as friend and interpreter. Self-invited, but welcome, was the New York Post's stocky New Dealish Columnist Sam Grafton, who went along for the informative ride. But it was quick-tongued, 55-year-old Ilya Ehrenburg's junket. He asked to see, and was shown, TVA, the South's big cities, its villages & farms, a cotton plantation, a sharecropper's acreage. (Once, watching Negro field hands...
...bigger cities, Ehrenburg had press conferences. As often as not, Ehrenburg asked most of the questions. His practiced polemics were a delight to polemical Sam Grafton but something of a puzzle to Southerners. His reply to questions about Soviet aggression was typical: "That is like asking a wounded soldier who has come home whom he intends to attack next." Initially the answer created sympathy; on second thought it seemed suspiciously oblique; on further thought it seemed to be no answer...
Ofttimes Haligonians took more devious routes to get a drink. They dropped in at smelly, slummy Grafton Street dives for a quick and illegal snort, or paid bootleggers anywhere from $8 to $20 for straight-from-the-still "Tiger Sweat...
...railroad between Tientsin and Chinwangtao, four hours a day, Pfc. John J. Janes of the U.S. Marines stands guard at "Bridge 21." A husky young veteran from Grafton, W.Va., wounded at Okinawa, Janes is one of 47,000 marines now on duty in China. Like most of them, he is homesick and his morale is low-for a marine, very...