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...Pacific War Memorial's organizers (chairman: Archibald B. Roosevelt) believe that the Americans who died in the Pacific war deserve a better monument than the usual buildings or pretentious statuary. When the U.S. captured the island empire of the Japanese, it took possession of a region which was almost unknown scientifically. Many of the islands have birds, animals and plants that are found nowhere else; some of them may prove useful to the rest of the world. The ocean around the islands teems with fish which might be a valuable addition to the world's food supply...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...
Many other faces were red. The Crossley poll's Archibald M. Crossley had given a final prediction of Dewey's election by 51% (to Truman's 42%). Fifty Washington correspondents, most of them bureau chiefs, had unanimously predicted a Dewey victory in a Newsweek poll. On election night the Chicago Tribune headlined: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In a pre-election photograph, LIFE had unreservedly captioned Dewey "The next President." TIME was just as wrong as everybody else...
...support of Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week by the White House...
...heaven's sake, where oh where did you get that fantastic line about Sir Archibald McIndoe: "Some of his patients call [him] 'God'-and partly mean it" [TIME, Sept. 27]? I have known Sir Archibald since I crashed in flames in 1941, and have been under his chopper 32 times ... I have never heard him spoken of as God ... If your correspondent (may he be hoist by his own typewriter) had said that Sir Archie was known to the boys as "The Boss," "Maestro," "Mac," or merely "The Big White Chief," then he would have been guilty...