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Said Harry Truman: "The U.S. has no intention, in the event of aggression, of allowing the peoples of Western Europe to be overrun before its own power can be brought to bear. This program ... is a tangible assurance of our purpose...
Earthy Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell flew back from a two month junket on which he tried to use up some of his frozen royalties in twelve European countries. He liked Italy best, but thought the natives were getting fed up with U.S. visitors. Reported Caldwell: Rome is so overrun with the Hollywood crowd that street peddlers who sidle up to tourists with furtive propositions no longer peddle postcards or addresses. Now they whisper: "I've got a script...
That sign, tacked up on Painter Peter Hurd's studio door, is slim protection from the friends, neighbors, admirers and tourists who frequently overrun his ranch. Last week some of the visitors were being diverted to the nearby town of Roswell, N. Mex. by the new Hard wing of the Roswell Museum. It contained 31 of his lithographs and six of his spacious, sharply detailed paintings. The collection had been financed by an anonymous California donor, who planned to add more Kurd pictures each year...
...friend of mine bought a house that was overrun with mice-hundreds of mice...
...call communism a bugaboo when ten countries with a population of over 300 million people have been overrun by the Commies," Dorgan cried. "I can't understand why we haven't got more Americans," he went on, pounding the table. "Look at men like Alger Hiss, a bright boy from Harvard Law School who turned more than 60 State Department documents over to the Russians...