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...Tulsa last week passers-by saw a big sign atop a building on a busy corner. It read: TRUMAN SAID HE WASN'T BIG ENOUGH TO BE PRESIDENT AND HE AIN'T. It was a Republican sign, but for Democrats it was a reminder of how low Harry Truman's prestige as President has fallen. It was also a harbinger of what they were in for with Harry Truman as their candidate...
...still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food I get I ain't got the strength to wash." To make up for the shortage of clothing coupons, film studios rented wedding dresses from their costume racks. Thus, this spring, Eileen Dickerson of Hornsey Road, London, was married in a costume first worn by Vivien Leigh in Anna Karenina...
...classified as illiterate. The twelve states with the worst educational rejection records were all relatively poor, relatively populous Southern states which spent the least (per capita) on public education. Explained Alabama's Senator Lister Hill, one of the bill's sponsors: "The children are where the money ain...
...coaches and athletic directors oppose the location, but behind-scenes power lies with the rowing clubs in the Philadelphia area, and Avery Brundage. And Avery ain't moving for nobody...
...tons of flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...