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Looking at Bill Boyle, Truman declared: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid; I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Bill Boyle beamed...
Monitors of the Voice of America had also heard the citizeness' question and, quick as a quiz kid, the Voice gave its own answer: "A people's democracy is not a democracy and does not belong to the people ... It is a country in which the state ... belongs to the Communist Party bosses, who can do just what they please ... A people's democracy is a country where the standard of living of the people must be kept below the standard of living of the Soviet people. Since Soviet man is superior to all other men, obviously...
...Musial residence was,a lackluster frame house two doors from the home of Joe Barbao, a semi-pro pitcher who worked nights in the zinc mill. Joe played catch with the kid he called "the little left-hander," taught him how to hold a ball to throw a curve. It was Stan Musial's ambition to be another Lefty Grove...
...again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor-league manager, persuasive Eddie Dyer had become a supervisor of Cardinal farm clubs. After listening to Dyer for an hour, Stan said: "If I were your kid brother, what would you advise me to do?" Said Dyer: "I'd sign with the Cardinals." Stan signed...
...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid; with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...