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...Guantanamo, the President rode around the base in an open car, stopped to greet some 200 children who welcomed him by singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
...brave show of resistance, but it was also the opening for which Gottwald had long been preparing. Months before, he had said: "We intend to win a 51% majority in the next election." Most Czechs had not expected the crisis before April. But last week's development handed Gottwald an early opportunity. He at once demanded that he be allowed to form a new cabinet from among leaders of half a dozen Communist stooge groups. Benes refused. But he also refused to accept the resignations of the non-Communist ministers. Said he: "I have my duty to convince...
...cable from Mexico City: "Word has reached here of the gallant posture you've assumed in front of the intransigent British lion. It pleases me to offer you the Mexican fleet if Argentina needs reinforcements to defeat the English wherever they may be found. Because what are we? Brave cats or miserable mice? At your service. Signed: Juan Charrasqueado [Scarface John-Mexico's man-in-the-street and currently the subject of a popular song...
Robert Riskin, it is reasonable to suppose, must be a very brave man. He has allowed his name to appear portentously in all publicity concerning "Magic Town," a deed which serves to point him out publicly as the person chiefly responsible for this poor and clumsy movie. And such an admission requires courageousness beyond the ordinary, as it is no ordinary density that fails to achieve something worthwhile with the services of James Stewart and Jane Wyman...
...will this Brave New World be carried? Not much farther, says Sherover. "After all," he admits, "there's a limit even...