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...although the public shouts, "That was fine, give us another just like that," it really "does not want what it thinks it wants." Generally, he thinks the U.S. public is too unresponsive about what it hears. Last week he told a Manhattan Women's City Club audience "to applaud us if you like the music, throw potatoes at us if you don't-but don't just sit there...
...when the Japanese filed into the House speaker's gallery, one legislator remained seated, hands folded across his chest, while his colleagues rose to applaud. He was Daniel Rudsten, 30, wartime captain of Marines. Later he explained: "I lost a brother in the Pacific due to aggression by the Japanese. I feel the visiting delegates deserve our protection and tactful treatment. I do not feel that I must applaud or show overt signs of friendliness which I do not possess...
...them right down in the front row and told them that they should agitate and squeal and holler . . ." Then, presenting Bill Lawrence ("the boy you love so much"), Godfrey made one final plea: "He loves your appreciation, but you don't have to squeal. Just applaud him when he gets through...
...heard only with difficulty. He was sure, he said, that he would have the help and support of officers who were in the room, and of all in the Navy. There was a dead silence when he concluded. When the ceremony was over, many admirals pointedly went downstairs to applaud Admiral Denfeld on his way out of the building...
...Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public...