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...White House lawn, blanketed by the heaviest Washington snowfall in years, Harry Truman frolicked without topcoat, gleefully tossing snowballs. Then, back in his office, he tossed a snowball with a rock in it at General Motors and U.S. industry in general...
...that negligence was not a factor; in others, courts of inquiry reached the same finding. Not so in the case of the cruiser which carried parts of the first atomic bomb to the Marianas, only to be lost a few days later on the way to Leyte, with the heaviest casualty list of any U.S. ship since the Arizona's at Pearl Harbor. The "Indy's" casualties: 880 dead or missing; 316 survivors, all of them injured...
...Fine Model. No one knows the fickleness of the American public better than the calendar makers. For years Norman Rockwell's Boy Scout pictures (heaviest buyers: funeral homes, church organizations) ran in first place. What the trade calls "the girl group" (heaviest buyers: foundries, garages, barbershops) ran behind. For 1946, the girls have nudged the Boy Scouts out of first place, are also solidly entrenched in fourth place. (Third place: the Dionnes...
Lean, grey Majority Leader John W. McCormack led Administration supporters in an eight-hour floor battle to knock out the rider. When it was over, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave their answer, approved it 162-10-101. The vote was the heaviest ever cast against a proposal by Harry Truman...
...Communist boss is husky, eloquent Maurice Thorez, 45, onetime coal miner, who spent most of the war years in Moscow. Last week he turned his heaviest oratorical guns on the Gaullist-Socialist idea of a western bloc. Such a bloc, he cried, ''would be opposed by the other [eastern] bloc and lead toward new conflicts, toward a war of extermination with atomic bombs...