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Late in March, the kids began toting their marbles to school in Roanoke, Va. At recess, there were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...
...bore the name of the Democrat's 1948 presidential candidate. Last week the origin of the doctrine, the aid-to-Greece-and-Turkey bill, arrived on the floor of the House. The G.O.P. made it plain that every man would vote for himself. The result: four days of shrill and contentious debate which reminded observers of nothing so much as the lurid neutrality fight...
...Manhattan, some 30,000 marchers (the Daily Worker claimed 80,000) paraded for six hours. Banners shouted: "The Truman Way Is Not the U.N. Way" -"Buy Only Union-Made Bread." At Union Square, a crowd of 10,000 listened to shrill speeches, lustily sang Solidarity Forever...
Another of the book's three stories, Cat Up a Tree, is a short and exhilarating sketch of a fire engine's mission on a bright windy morning, "a witches' morning, a morning of little devils and hats popping off, of flurry and fluster and sudden shrill laughter...
...wrote a book called Midwest at Noon. Just before Pearl Harbor, he outshouted a hostile meeting of 300 Bundists in Chicago to get Britain's case heard. He is a zealot for both his country and the U.S.-but doesn't want his paper to be shrill. The idea for Editor Hutton's magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes, as U.S. Editor, will cable 8,000 words a week of U.S. news and comment to London, where it will...