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Having got wisdom off his chest, Thompson got down to business. He was there to sell 306 purebred Hereford cattle from the nearby Switzer & Field ranch. Quickly he sold nine animals for a total of $39,925, topped the whole lot with a whopping $46,000 for one prize bull, Baca OJR Royal I. In two arm-flailing days filled with Thompson's rolling oratory, he and four assistants sold the entire Switzer & Field herd...
...Truman left the cheering Marines and marched over to his regular Thursday-morning press conference. "How do you feel?" a newsman asked knowingly. He felt all right, the President said. "Do you feel better now than you did yesterday morning?" He always felt good, said Harry Truman, expanding his chest. He was always fit. And if anyone didn't believe it, he invited, stepping back like a boxer and slightly raising his hands, let him come up and take...
...customers with his own parody of My Blue Heaven. Lou Reynolds' real name was Louis Sebille, and that was the name he used during World War II when he flew 68 combat missions as a Marauder pilot, wound up with major's leaves and a chest full of medals...
...Spanish Gardener (Little, Brown; $3) comes from the medicine chest of a real M.D., British-born A. (for Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby...
...DePinto, who is supervisor of the Dunster House Dining Room, explained last night that her husband was taken to the hospital after complaining of a pain in his chest while at work, September...