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...Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times. It did not cloud his affability or brake his brisk manner of disposing of business across his desk. Newsmen who jampacked his press conference noticed: 1) Harry Truman had switched from summerweight double-breasted to a medium-weight flannel double-breasted suit; 2) his work-to-be-done boxes were stacked high; 3) there was another box on his desk, filled with emerald green match folders. The President indicated the folders, remarked that he was not supposed to be looking. Deskside reporters grabbed the hint...
...violent stimulant never fails to wake everybody up: Margaret Rutherford's unceasingly funny impersonation of Madame Arcati, the medium who conjures up the ghostly troubles of the Condomine menage. In a brilliantly conceived mixture of types, Miss Rutherford bounces through the proceedings with all the healthy hilarity of a Girl Guide while she raises hob with the spirit world...
Although this policy has piled up a fortune of several millions for Norton Simon, he still lives cautiously. He drives medium-priced cars, wears conservative, ready-made clothes, lives in an inexpensive old house. As yet Simon has only a taste of the food industry's wares; some day he hopes to control a food-processing empire comparable to Standard Brands...
...tenants will pay $500,000 rent the first year, $1.2 million a year after 1947, will use two-thirds of the plant's 5,052,177 square feet of floor space to manufacture the low-priced Kaiser automobile (now being designed). In the rest of the space the medium-priced Frazer car will be made, along with the Graham-Paige line of farm equipment...
Each year has its crop of big babies. Doctors, who believe what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...