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...Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
...hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled bad. The Post wouldn't offend again...
...Antonio after a harrowing three-day trip on a troop train from California, sharing two chair cars with G.I.s. One day's food ration was a piece of bread and jelly and a small portion of stew. Half the time their cars had no water. ("Our washroom simply stank.") But at least they got home. In West Coast ports, thousands of returned troops were stalled indefinitely. Housing facilities were so bad many of them had to be quartered in barracks ships in Puget Sound. There would be many disappointments on Christmas...
...this time the cheering went on, and we were being forcibly mobbed by hundreds of men strong as only the half-insane can be, kissed and kissed again by men who stank like the inferno, obviously sick toward death of all kinds of illnesses...
...know and I know that it was not "a good fight." We know that it stank. We know that every possible chance was used by the speakers of the Republican Party to hit below the belt, to frighten the people by half-truths and pure lies. . . . What uniting is done, and the elections show that it will be done, will be in spite of the part the Republican "thinkers" have played, not because...