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Crisp autumn weather had come to 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...
...Hirohito's car moved through the streets of Tokyo. At the gates of the U.S. Embassy, U.S. guards presented arms. Two U.S. officers escorted him to the huge, dark-paneled, cream-trimmed living room, where General MacArthur was waiting. MacArthur, who wore a ribbonless shirt open at the throat, shook hands and said, "Good morning...
...Penicillin can be given in ice cream. Doctors at the San Diego Naval Training Center, treating sore throat, scarlet fever and trench mouth, stir penicillin into soft ice cream, put the mixture in paper cups and refreeze it in a refrigerator tray. The ice cream preserves the drug, disguises its bitter taste, and slips easily down babies and other difficult patients...
Died. John B. Thayer III, 50, Philadelphia socialite banker, survivor of the Titanic sinking (in which his father was lost); by his own hand (slashing his wrists and throat with a razor); in Philadelphia, after year-long grief over the death of one of his two sons in the Pacific...
...greatly expedited by encouraging construction to the limit, since the building industry normally accounts for about 5% of the total U.S. employment. And high production would in turn create so much competition that any contractor who let prices get out of hand would just be cutting his own throat...