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...Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening to this shoddy impresario of the patronage grab...
...Food Administrator Marvin Jones had the authority to do the job. Instead, he had let competing agencies - particularly the armed forces - grab all they thought they wanted. This had created some shortages where there should have been none. Actually, there was ample food for the U.S. Although the meat shortage is the worst of the war, the U.S. cattle population of over 80,000,000 is at an alltime high. But no one had laid down a basic, overall policy to get the meat to U.S. dinner tables...
...hours and 20 minutes the triple-span Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen had served its American captors well. But it had taken a terrible beating for most of that time. First there had been the charges set off by the Germans when the Americans came to grab the bridge. Then, for three or four days of terrible urgency, it bore the quaking weight of tanks, big guns, heavy trucks, the tread of thousands of men as they hurried across the Rhine. Hour after hour shells had screamed through its beams; several had gouged big chunks...
...York Daily News' Inquiring Photographer, Jimmy Jemail, knocks together a fascinating column. The things that people tell him are usually things that thousands of readers have been thinking but not telling. One day last week he asked: if your house caught fire at night, what would you grab before trying to escape...
Said a Bronx waiter: "First I'd grab my false teeth. . . . If there was time, I'd then put on my pants. And if I still had a little time, I'd kick my mother-in-law in the shins so she couldn't escape. No, that's not cruelty; that's justice...