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...Transformation. Last week, five years later to the day, President Truman held his 222nd press conference. He was tanned from his 30-day vacation in Key West; the years of responsibility had engraved a few lines in his face and there was a heavier frost of whiteness in his hair. But there was more of a change than that-something the office had done to the man. He no longer looked like an anonymous face in the crowd. He stood erect as a West Pointer, radiated confidence, and looked amazingly trim for a man of 65. He had sampled authority...
Grey-haired and 45 lbs. heavier than he was when he was pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals in the '30s 39-year-old Jay Hanna Dean is no radio & TV novice. His broadcasts of St. Louis ball games during the past nine years have put him in a position to spend each winter "huntin', fishin', and doin' nothin'." But his new job with the Yankees, over Du Mont's New York television station WABD, marks the first time he has had to handle commercials (Ballantine beer and Philip Morris cigarettes). "Some words...
That conversion was the deciding factor in the game. The heavier Yale team came back in the second half to score a try and the extra points to win. Footballer Stu Tisdale scored the Eli goal...
...partial cure for the wheat surplus, Kansas Merchant and Wheat Farmer Morris Coover last week offered a new recipe for bread, using 16% more wheat flour in every loaf and retailing for 10 more. Coover, backed by the Western Kansas Development Association, last week flew 500 loaves of his heavier, darker and more nutritious bread to Washington for sampling in the Senate & House restaurants...
With a flashing of 84 rectifier tubes and a chugging of six great electromagnets, the world's biggest (300 million volt) betatron started operating last week at the University of Illinois. Betatrons look something like cyclotrons, but instead of spinning protons or heavier particles, they spin lightweight electrons...