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...Risk of War." Besieged Berlin was tense and tired. A chilly rain fell. U.S. and British armored cars prowled sluggishly through streets that breathed the smells peculiar to ruins in the rain-smells of wet bricks, damp dust and scorched wood. On street corners, people gathered to haggle over the exchange rate between Soviet and Western marks or to buy black market herring. At the Anhalter station, where the city's food supplies from the Western zones used to roll in, before the Russians blocked the railway, only a few forlorn figures stirred-an old man in ill-fitting...
...nearly fell from the rostrum; Speaker Martin's frozen face as Dewey accepted the nomination; Governor Sigler's dejection as he waited to release the Michigan delegation; Herbert Hoover's emotion at the affectionate demonstration that greeted him; the Dewey motorcade, threading its way through the wet, crowded streets to Convention Hall for the acceptance speech...
...with profiteering on poor quality goods. His bill of particulars: polo shirts and quilts with "nonwashable sewing threads"; printed dress fabrics that "not only cannot withstand perspiration . . . but cannot even withstand water without staining"; women's woolens that fade in sunlight; taffeta and moire finishes "that disappear when wet"; "socalled washable fabrics [that] shrink 6, 7 and 8%"; raincoats that shrink in the rain...
Washington speculation was based on three main theories: 1) that McGrath was left behind to justify charging the trip to the President's travel allowance, 2) that McGrath had roused the President's ire by intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
Stretched taut as a wet clothesline by nervous tension, studded with warts of worry, perforated by ulcers, 20th Century man lives his much-cartooned life sandwiched between the deep blues and high blood pressure. Starting this month, he may take a new lease on life: his problems have been taken in hand by the author of the century's bestselling success story, How to Win Friends and Influence People...