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...Battle of Africa became history last week. To the U.S. soldiers who fought their way across Tunisia's dust-whipped plains and along the bald ridges of Djebel Berda and Djebel Tahent it was history of a peculiarly intimate kind, for in battle each soldier is alone. To Private Alvan Mendelsohn it was a foxhole on a hilltop beyond El Guettar, reading a magazine when the shelling got heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private...
Navy Secretary Frank Knox had been there. So had Senator Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...
Bethlehem showed a skimpy $88,000 rise, but would have had no rise at all if its bald, bold President Eugene G. Grace had not taken a voluntary pay cut of $316,079, scaling his salary down...
...solid, crashing exception has been Union Pacific's bald, blunt, bull-built William M. Jeffers. As rubber czar, he memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
...Bald, good-natured Rear Admiral Ralph Davison,' assistant to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, had got as far as Albuquerque (on an airline trip from Washington to Los Angeles) when a noncommissioned ferry pilot asked for a seat. Under the priority system (which Ralph Davison helped to devise) the sergeant could displace anybody but White House personnel. Admiral Davison stepped out, grinning, waited for the next plane...