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...will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell...
...said non-smoking Harry Truman, "I suppose I have had more smoke blown at me than any other man alive." The President pulled out an agenda penciled on a scratch pad and the conference began. Judging by the formal statement issued later and comments of the conferees, Truman confined the talk to subjects on which he and MacArthur already agreed-Korea, the Philippines, stabilizing the Far East. Particularly, the President wanted to hear the general's opinions on rebuilding Korea. According to one man in the room, the President referred to Formosa only by saying-as if in passing...
...Overhead. Mac McDonnell still keeps his nose close to his drawing board, his eye on production. He likes to pad around the huge war-surplus plant on the edge of Lambert-St. Louis field, uses a public-address system to tell his 6,500 employees about new orders as soon as they come in. Lest they think that he is overpaid, he reminded them in his last annual report that his own salary (after taxes) is only "equal to the wages ... of ten unskilled laborers...
Then the cops revisited her room, heard a muffled cry across a narrow hall. They tore open a locked closet door. A baby carriage stood behind it. Inside, tenderly swathed in an electric heating pad lay the baby-alive and well...
...Books. She had bought books on baby care; by using the heating pad and a hot-water bottle she had kept the temperature in the carriage at 96°-a few degrees warmer than the temperature of an incubator. She had boiled chemicals on an electric plate to provide extra oxygen in the room. She had fed the tiny infant correct formulas from well-sterilized bottles. At the hospital astounded physicians found that the baby had gained six ounces...