Word: penses
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With Congress in recess and President Truman a sure thing for the Democratic nomination in 1948, the nation's cartoonists turned their pens on the nation's best political show-the scramble for the Republican nomination. Convention time was still ten months off. But in country clubs and...
Success. In Fowler, Colo., a hog-calling contest was abruptly interrupted when hogs broke out of their pens some three blocks away, joined the contestants to see what all the calling was about.
Sweltering Paris was deserted except for the Boy Scouts, who were holding their first Jamboree (see EDUCATION) since the war, and the economists, who were trying to implement the "Marshall approach." The Scouts got on fine; their favorite pastime was the barter of their various treasures-scouting insignia, penknives, hats...
Then the Russian soldiers began to spend. They bought everything G.I.s would sell-watches, pens, cigarets. Generals were not above stripping off their watches for a handful of invasion marks. The U.S. soldiers cashed in these marks at the nearest Army finance office, got dollars, and usually sent the cash...
On the U.S. Model. Lazareff and a talented young (26) Resistance leader named Aristide Blank had moved in on Paris with the puny staff of the underground Défense de la France. They renamed it France-Soir, packed it with straight news for Parisians who got almost everything but...