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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capital the more freely and eagerly people talked to him. Elsewhere, in the ensuing 16 countries he visited, Welles followed the same plan: get a car and start motoring, gather your impressions tourist-style by avoiding the good hotels in the capital cities, stop wherever things look interesting and ask questions...
While he was still a research chemist he met Isobel Swithinbank, whose grandfather introduced Eno's Fruit Salt to a more or less grateful nation. One day she came into his father's office, where Stafford was helping get out campaign literature, and asked if she could help electioneer. Since then, she has seldom left Cripps's side. Tall, blue-eyed, with fluffy, grey hair, Lady Cripps's vivacity helps melt his icy public front. In a recent interview with a reporter, Cripps was stiffly formal. To almost every question he objected: "Well, you really...
...arguments. But many an expert will continue to differ with certain Halsey tactics defended in his Story. Example: the famous Battle for Leyte Gulf in October 1944, where some critics claim that the Japanese decoyed Halsey out of position. On that occasion Admiral Nimitz bluntly radioed to ask where Halsey's battleships were. Says Halsey: "I was as stunned as if I had been struck in the face. The paper rattled in my hands. I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something that I am ashamed to remember. Mick Carney rushed over and grabbed...
...Despite the fact that the team hasn't been getting the breaks this year," Spear said, "I urge full support of the rally because it's our team, and because those players have been giving everything they've got. You can't ask a team to do more...
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