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...politics. After Congress passed the bill, some 28,000 letters and wires poured into the White House. All but 200 urged the President to sign the bill. He knew that much of the mail for the bill was puffed up by the trade associations who had axes to grind-organizations of druggists, small grocers, liquor and appliance dealers, etc. But in an election year, Harry Truman is not the man to take any chance of losing such a bloc of small businessmen's votes, especially since consumers didn't seem to care or know enough about the bill...
...high-school track (1945-48), Bob won 40 first places and broke 21 records. He was only a fair student. When he came home once with a rare "A" on his report card, he grinned self-consciously: "Well, Mom, I guess I'm a grind now." There was nothing mediocre about his growing athletic record. As a football fullback he averaged almost nine yards a carry. Tulareans have it that one team didn't even try to stop him: "They just let him through, peaceful like." In basketball, in his senior year, he averaged 18 points a game...
...Dream Competitor." During the whole exhausting two-day grind that a decathlon lasts, Mathias is as cool and impersonal as a coach directing a football team, constantly checking in his mind the complicated point score, deciding when to push himself to the limit, when to hold back to conserve his energy. Even when he was a green 17-year-old at the 1948 Olympics, he steadfastly refused to take his turn at the pole vault until the bar was set at 10 feet. He saw no point in wasting his energy on heights he was sure he could clear...
...Through College (Warner) poses a solemn problem: Is a burlesque queen (Virginia Mayo) with a yen for culture entitled to a college education? The answer is yes, mainly because of the brave battle for academic freedom waged by Theater Arts Professor Ronald Reagan. "Hot Garters Gertie," as the bump & grind artist is known, is saved from expulsion when Professor Reagan threatens to expose Board of Trustees Chairman Roland Winters as a wolf in sheepskin clothing who once gave Gertie a mink coat...
...with losses of probably 250,000 men. Epidemics of some sort were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens out, swallowing up Pyongyang (the North Koreans' capital, which they had lost once before) and some 15,000 more square miles of Red territory...