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Coach Taylor had a major rebuilding job at the beginning of the season. He had only six veterans as a nucleus, with practically no help at all coming from sophomores. In addition, Weaver was graduated in February and can no longer compete in intercollegiate meets. Nevertheless, the team has gotten by with this limited manpower...
...scouting party came back with an adverse report. The problem of housing and protecting the President in unfamiliar surroundings and setting up adequate communications raised all sorts of complications. Besides, local politicians had already gotten scent of the enterprise and would clamor for the President's ear wherever he decided to relax. Harry Truman listened, then wearily agreed to postpone the trip. But he admitted at last that he needed rest-except for two quick trips to Missouri, he had taken the heavy hammering of Washington for eight straight months...
...Franklin would have a hard time getting any backing from the Long Island's angry and politically potent riders. They wanted changes made, and they had already gotten some. Manhattan Investment Banker William H. Draper court-appointed boss of the bankrupt road, had raised $6,000,000 in loans from Manhattan banks to buy new equipment and safety devices which the Pennsy had not installed...
...whom he wanted to handle the tough job of enforcing the nation's price controls. He asked New York City's Police Commissioner Tom Murphy to take it on-if not permanently, at least long enough to get the ball rolling. But Commissioner Murphy, who had never gotten the federal judgeship he expected as a reward for his successful prosecution of the Hiss case,* was in no mood to rush to the Administration's rescue this time. Said Murphy, after declining: "I was flattered ... but I have a job to do as Police Commissioner in New York...
...issue of Jan. 15, TIME noted ("Giant in a Snare") that the misnamed "Great Debate" had gotten tangled in pessimistic, defensive perimeters and loops. But events and decisions were already on the march, and the "Great Debate" petered out like a story told by a man who gradually realizes that nobody is listening...