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...baby, the $700 million synthetic rubber industry, was ready to stand on its own feet. So said President Truman last week as he sent Congress a detailed plan for the care & feeding of the youngster during the next ten years. His most important recommendation: dismiss the baby's Government nurse and send the child out into the competitive world. The Government, said Harry Truman, should get out of the rubber business "as soon as possible" by selling or leasing its 28 synthetic plants to private industry...
...Stammered Grace. When Alice Morrison arrived, the school owned six buildings and had 200 students. She spent a long day looking around her and sizing up her job. As she surveyed the children's bowed heads at the evening meal and listened to one youngster repeat a stammered grace, she made up her mind to stay...
Most eyes fell on a six-year-old chestnut stallion named Wing Commander, the Man o' War of five-gaiters, beaten only once since he was a youngster of three. On Wing Commander's back was a wiry little man named Earl Teater, who had taught him everything he knew about "gaitin'." His owner, Mrs. Frances Dodge Van Lennep, watched from a seat...
...North Philadelphia railroad sta tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
...process is repeated a second time, but after the youngster has guessed the new toy's size, he is suddenly not allowed to have it. The tester than asks his subject to estimate again the size of the toy he desires...