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Shirer's book is at its best when it quotes from captured diaries and secret memoranda. It is poorest when he fills it with infuriatingly personal and flat comments on yesterday's news ("Second thoughts on Potsdam : It is a milestone in history"). He writes much as he broadcasted,* with a strong accent on emotion. Even the most devoted admirers of the late President Roosevelt will find a long entry on F.D.R.'s death a bit on the sticky side...
...treat Jackie "just like any other rookie," and he certainly did on the payroll. Though he may have to pay Jackie more next season, so far Rickey has paid the crowd-pulling rookie-of-the-year only $5,000. Under league rules that is the least that the poorest rookie can be paid...
...Indians were still among the world's poorest people. Seventy-five percent hovered perpetually between gnawing hunger and outright starvation. Malaria, bubonic plague and a host of other diseases made an Indian's life expectancy at birth the world's lowest - 27 years...
...largest percentage of U.S. geniuses was born in Massachusetts, in January (poorest genius-producing month: June), and inherited their talents equally from their fathers & mothers. The average genius sprang from a large brood (7.51 children) and from mature parents: father was 34.8 when the genius was born, mother...
Most of the other big steel companies also did well, with profit boosts ranging as high as 68% over last year. Poorest performer on the books was Bethlehem. Its net profit for the year was only 19% better than in 1945. But it was still Bethhem's best showing in six years...