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Peace Fighters. "Peace!" "Hail to Stalin!" "Ami [Americans] go home!" cried the Reds, flinging propaganda leaflets left & right. Angry West Berliners rushed to help the outnumbered police. Cried a housewife: "Chase them back! Get at them!" Shopkeepers hastily put up their shutters...
...clock in the Detroit city hall tower was bonging high noon when Harry Truman, to the strains of "Hail to the Chief," strode to the rostrum facing crowded Cadillac Square. To Detroit's shirtsleeved thousands, celebrating their city's 250th anniversary, and to the nation, the President spoke a somber warning...
...United States, or to Western Civilization . . . The scientist and the poet took these away. It is a lonely and alarming business to feel one's self one in a creation of billions and billions . . . but it is exciting and inspiriting to be among the first to hail and accept the only fraternal community that finally can be valid-that painfully emerging unity of those who live on the one inhabited star...
...back to television the snowy shoulders and sunny aplomb of Faye Emerson. Feverishly sponsored by Pepsi-Cola with animated cartoons, bubbling glasses, jingles and urgent testimonials, the new show intends each week to salute a different U.S. city. The opening program was dedicated to Boston. On hand, presumably to hail their native city, were Cartoonist Al Capp, born in New Haven, Conn.; Singer Georgia Gibbs, born in Worcester, Mass.; Cinemactor Jeffrey Lynn, born in Auburn, Mass.; Comic Ezra Stone, born in New Bedford, Mass., and Composer (Syncopated Clock) Leroy Anderson, born across the Charles River in Cambridge. The talk between...
...accompanied by Bess, drove in sunshine to Griffith Stadium to perform the traditional and normally happy presidential chore of tossing out the first ball of the season. There were a few boos from the bleachers when the President appeared, but they were drowned out when a band struck up Hail to the Chief. Grinning broadly, Southpaw Truman, after a couple of balks to tease photographers, pegged a fast throw to the infield. Then he and Bess settled back, munched a hot dog apiece, watched the Senators beat the Yankees...