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...taken in the round, the record was the full answer to Harry Truman's irresponsible blurt. Congress did not need the replies in kind that some of its members delivered. Majority Leader Charley Halleck said: "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman is the poorest President since George Washington." On the floor of the House, Ohio's Cliff Clevenger rapped: "Might well be there will be some Congress-tanned Missouri jackass hide on the Christmas market-come November." The Rev. Peter Marshall, the Senate's chaplain, spoke the final word...
...reassure, and flirt with, a half-grown Sicilian girl who knows no English. A German sniper kills them both. 2) A Neapolitan street boy steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later, and sees a little of the neolithic life of Naples' poorest people, he loses interest in his shoes, and learns that U.S. Negroes are not the only unlucky people on earth. 3) A Roman girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize him as the boy she began a happy relationship with...
Aircraft shares led last week's little parade. Their earnings were the poorest of all U.S. business but their prospects were good; some of the military manufacturers (e.g., Convair, Boeing and North American) already had backlogs in nine digits. In a week when General Motors (with a record profit) hit a low for the year, Douglas Aircraft hit a high of 63⅜, though it reported a loss...
Without the benefit of a spring practice to learn the Harlow system, the 1946 Harlow eleven won 7 games and lost but 2--one a 27 to 14 loss to Yale. This year's season was one of the poorest in recent Harvard history as the Harlow system failed to function for the first time since the master came to Cambridge...
...lower benches was obstructed for some time, and general discomfort resulted to all who had tickets. . . . As far as arrangements for receiving the Princeton team are concerned, they are above criticism, from the fact that there were non at all. . . . The game itself was one of the poorest which our team has yet played, a fact in a great measure due, as we may sagely say, to an ill-judged an improper favoritism on the part of the Captain in selecting the team." Series Since 1877 Harvard Princeton...