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...rest, there was Missouri's Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...
...will mix him a pale highball. His second daughter Becky (wife of an air force lieutenant and mother of Tooey's granddaughter "Pinky") will play Beethoven on the piano. The third daughter, twelve-year-old Carla ("Boops") will join Tooey on the floor with the latest of the stray kittens she collects. And that will be that...
...Discipline. Neither side had their hearts in the quarrel. The Greeks fell back, firing at random. A stray bullet killed a British officer, the affair's only casualty. At 3:45 a.m. a grimy mutineers' delegation asked for terms; above all, they wanted Greek political unity. Tight-lipped British officers listened politely, then told the delegation to go back, get properly cleaned up and return with an unconditional surrender. By the dawn's half-light the Greeks were back, clean and submissive...
...Bronx, where 22 people have been bitten by rabid dogs in the last few weeks. Though there have been no deaths, New York City (which has the densest canine population in the world-600,000 dogs, 30,000 dog bites a year) ordered that all stray Bronx dogs be destroyed. Promptly Bronx citizens beat up all the dogcatchers, one so badly that he had to stay home next day. After that, the dogcatchers had police protection. When 812 Bronx dogs (80 with licenses) had been destroyed, feeling ran so high that the city set aside a vacant building where licensed...
...only 50 to 100 people die of hydrophobia, because nearly all those infected get the Pasteur injections in time. The Public Health Service says that the current rabies outbreak is no worse than usual-so far. But it is potentially more dangerous because of the wartime increase in stray dogs. Rabies flare-ups are concentrated where busy working people let dogs run all day and where migrant populations leave their dogs behind them...