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...Southern California's newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...
Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps walked into the House of Commons and presented his first budget. He was a brisk and confident man, for passage of ERP in the U.S. Congress helped him meet Britain's most pressing economic problem-the shortage of dollars. But how to check inflation? And how to induce people to work harder when there was still too little in British shops to buy? Cripps was characteristically clear and crisp. M.P.s did not like all he said, but they enjoyed the performance. When Cripps had finished his 2¼-hour speech...
With his wife and three children, Batista now lives quietly in Daytona Beach -next door to 83-year-old automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds. Every morning, he is up at 7 for a brisk row in the nine-foot boat he keeps in the Halifax River. He plays tennis at the smart Daytona Beach Bath and Tennis Club, goes to the movies two or three times a week and occasionally speaks at Rotary Club luncheons...
...Senate Small Business Committee, inquiring into the way the Department of Commerce had been issuing export licenses, discovered that the licenses were the coin in a brisk and profitable business...
President Harry Truman gave no sign that he knew his feet were wet; he was peppy, dapper and punctual as usual, and he reflected a hearty good cheer. But there was something a little unreal about his brisk attitude of unconcern. The angry waters of Democratic politics washed muddily through the White House all week and the President scarcely moved without sloshing in the stuff...