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General Delivery. With this year's congressional blitz all but completed, Johnson's challenge next year will be to preserve all he can of his Democratic congressional majority. O'Brien will have a critical part in that effort, too, both as campaign strategist and patronage dispenser, with 35,000 appointive postmasterships and 33,000 rural letter-carrier jobs at his disposal...
...night attack has started, and I am with a fire brigade in a sandbag crow's nest on top of a tall building near the Thames." So somberly, portentously, Edward R. Murrow began an evening broadcast of the London blitz in the early days of World War II. To listeners in the U.S., his resonant, sepulchral voice came to convey the grim reality of war. Murrow followed Londoners on their way to air-raid shelters and caught their measured footsteps on his mike; he joined R.A.F. bomber pilots on their raids over Germany and described the nightmarish rainbow...
...Cliffies swept their first match of the year at Wellesley on Feb. 16, over-coming Wellesley and Springfield, 9-0, and beating Brandeis 5-4. Miss Billings contributed nine wins in nine bouts and Dianna Bishop added a six out of six blitz, while Miss Selker and Miss Cox each won four out of six attempts...
...parents carrying their children, housewives and commuter husbands, young fellows and their girl friends, men in dinner jackets and women in evening wraps. Some took nips from hip flasks against the intense cold; others poured hot tea from thermos bottles. It was almost like the old days of the Blitz, when stranger talked to stranger as if they were neighbors...
...Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...