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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin air and his back-breaking schedule, the President seemed to enjoy his furlough from Washington immensely. He returned the "Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch...
Blue goalie Terry Van Ingen was his usual remarkable self...
...withholding them from Russia. Now Canada was going aggressively "imperialist" as a "junior partner" of the U.S. The party would fight this policy and would look for support to the trade-union movement and the "politically conscious forces in French Canada." These bucko words were more exaggerated than usual. The Reds did have potent cells or control in many a Canadian union, e.g., the International Woodworkers of America, and the Canadian Fishermen's Union (TIME, Jan. 13). But anti-Red movements are strong in some of the unions. And in "politically conscious French Canada" the Reds have been whacked...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...
Alcoholism and other forms of neurosis, currently so fashionable on the screen, are here presented without the usual hocus-pocus and yeast-endorser's jargon...