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...York City's mayor for a record-breaking twelve years. His posthumous autobiography, The Making of an Insurgent, plainly reflects the weariness he must have felt as he and Writer M. R. Werner knocked it together last year during the final months of La Guardia's fatal illness (cancer). It covers the first 37 years of his life (1882-1919), from the childhood on Army posts (his Italian immigrant father was a bandmaster) through his early congressional years...
...Meears, who took over the pitching reins from starter George Emmons in the first inning, had things pretty much his own way, giving up only one run before the fatal sixth...
...housing shortage," cried Harry Truman last week, "is almost a fatal one." He told the National Conference on Family Life a bitter little story about a man and his wife, their baby and dog who could find no place to live in Washington and weren't even allowed to stay in their car on a parking lot. Said Harry Truman: "Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of this country as is Wall Street andthe railroads, or any one of them...
...helpless. Some of the smaller plants have shut down. And the big ones have slowed to a production pace worse than a shutdown. This, because of a new kind of common cold which leaves its victims weak and shaky for a month-when it doesn't flash into fatal pneumonia...
...Sensational prophecies" have insisted that the effects of radiation (on the heredity carriers called genes) would produce a race of monsters. Nothing to worry about there, said the Surgeon General's office. The Army Medical Corps is confident that since irradiation is usually fatal to developing embryos, "the result . . . would probably be a higher rate of abortion and miscarriage...