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...press conference, four hours after arrival, was the most pack-jammed of the convention. Henry Wallace had to be shoved through the crowd (only a third were newsmen). Sitting on a rickety table, with flash bulbs popping and microphones thrust at his face, Henry Wallace said stiffly, belligerently: "I am in this fight to the finish." What did he think of the President's feeble endorsement of him, which some of his own followers were calling a stab in the back? "The President did all I expected him to do. I told him that in justice to himself...
...pack there was a picture of a fair-haired, serious young woman, and an unposted letter, dated July 2, and headed "Westfront" (Normandy...
...immediate future meats will be rationed again. So will canned goods, but not so tightly as before. Last year OPA piled up a big canned surplus-some of which the U.S. has been eating point-free this summer. This time OPA plans to market the entire pack. Sugar rationing will get no lighter, as supplies are 25% below 1941. Probably used cars will be rationed by year's end, clothes will not. Shoemen fear an end to shoe rationing...
...asked the southpaw why he didn't get the sword himself. He said: "I let my buddy have it. I can't carry any more.'' He pointed to his pack which he had laid on the ground. There were three samurai swords hung...
Then three of us sat down in a sacred park near by on the edge of a cement fence built around a pedestaled, steel-shelled Buddha which had suffered considerably from shell fragments-hits in the chest and behind the right ear. We opened a pack of K rations for breakfast...