People, Jun. 2, 1952

A member of the Senate Agriculture Committee had a question to ask Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan. Did he agree with the President's recent comment about the committee? Said Brannan, "Oh, I do, sir. I don't remember what he said, but I agree."

In a story bylined by eight-year-old Vera Kondakova, who was chosen to present Joseph Stalin with a May Day bouquet, the Communist paper Young World gave East German readers the Moscow version of juvenile heaven. Wrote Vera (or ghostwriter): "I am the happiest, the very happiest child on earth. Comrade Stalin...

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